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Access To Treatment For Less Common Cancers

EDM number 790 in 2006-07, proposed by Jessica Morden on 31/01/2007.

That this House expresses concern at the ruling by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in its final appraisal determination which will in effect deny a new treatment, Velcade, to people suffering from multiple myeloma on the NHS; recognises that this will create inequity in the Health Service in England and Wales where patients with private insurance will continue to have access to this life-extending treatment; notes that while NICE recognises its clinical effectiveness, the decision to withhold it from NHS patients has been made on the grounds of cost; further notes that other European countries have been able to assess the drug as both clinically and cost effective; acknowledges that NICE currently caps the cost of treatments at £30,000 per quality added life year, which is inappropriate in the assessment of rare diseases and should be set substantially higher; and in the light of this calls on the Secretary of State for Health to ask NICE to review urgently again its processes for the assessment of treatments for less common cancers such as multiple myeloma.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jessica Morden31/01/2007Newport EastLabourProposed
Bob Spink31/01/2007Castle PointConservativeSeconded
David Drew01/02/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Brian Iddon01/02/2007Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore01/02/2007HendonLabourSeconded
Andrew George01/02/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn01/02/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Michael Penning01/02/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock01/02/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis01/02/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Nigel Evans01/02/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke01/02/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale01/02/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins01/02/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer02/02/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling02/02/2007Croydon CentralConservativeSigned
Paul Flynn05/02/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Sharon Hodgson05/02/2007Gateshead East and Washington WestLabourSigned
Ann Winterton05/02/2007CongletonConservativeSigned
Betty Williams05/02/2007ConwyLabourSigned
David Taylor05/02/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle05/02/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Greg Pope06/02/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Lynne Jones06/02/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell06/02/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Gregory Campbell06/02/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Mark Durkan06/02/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Hywel Williams06/02/2007CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
David Simpson07/02/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Si07/02/2007Swansea EastLabourSigned
Phil Willis07/02/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson07/02/2007Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Janet Dean07/02/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Frank Cook07/02/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell07/02/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Paul Murphy07/02/2007TorfaenLabourSigned
William McCrea07/02/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/02/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Alan Simpson07/02/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Martin Caton07/02/2007GowerLabourSigned
John Pugh08/02/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley08/02/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz08/02/2007Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Ian Stewart19/02/2007EcclesLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt19/02/2007Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross19/02/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech20/02/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeff Ennis21/02/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/02/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Derek Conway22/02/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
David Crausby22/02/2007Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins28/02/2007TamworthLabourSigned
John McDonnell07/03/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Paul Rowen18/04/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Dodds02/05/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Paul Holmes04/06/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams13/06/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned

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