Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 3 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will write to the UK Government to expedite the review being conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on tovorafenib, to ensure that it can be made available to patients in Scotland as soon as possible.
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-37553 on 27 May 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.
Decisions on whether or not a medicine is accepted for use in NHS England are, rightly, matters for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which appraises the clinical and cost-effectiveness of newly licensed medicines in England.