Health written question – answered at on 10 March 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what assessment she has made of the availability of drugs for patients with moderately severe to severe Alzheimer's disease in Peterborough;
(2) what treatments recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence the Greater Peterborough Primary Care Partnership does not (a) fund and (b) offer to patients.
Clinicians are responsible for determining which treatments need to be prescribed for individual patients and primary care trusts are responsible for deciding whether individual treatments should be approved for funding.
Where the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has carried out a technology appraisal, the national health service has three months to put in place funding so that any clinician wishing to follow NICE guidance can do so.
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