Access to Medical Cannabis

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 8 April 2019.

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Photo of Matthew Hancock Matthew Hancock Secretary of State for Health and Social Care 3:39, 8 April 2019

Yes. My heart goes out to the hon. Lady’s constituent and her family. One of the purposes of the evidence gathering that we are doing, and of the calls of the national institute for trials, is to provide the evidence on which the NHS could routinely provide those medicines. At the moment, we have the ability for specialists to prescribe in the interim, but I want to get the evidence base in place for the longer term.