National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 7 May 2019.

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Photo of Matthew Hancock Matthew Hancock Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Yes. My hon. Friend raises another important area where progress is being made on the ability for people to get access to drugs that could help them. In the case of medicinal cannabis, we now have a programme in place, as we discussed in this Chamber a couple of weeks ago, so that those with acute conditions and with clinical support for using medicinal cannabis can get it. We are also working as rapidly as we reasonably can to normalise the ability to use medicinal cannabis within the NHS.