Question reference: S4W-27017
- Asked by: Nanette Milne, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 7 August 2015
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 September 2015
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the New Medicines Fund has been spent on (a) medicines not yet assessed, (b) medicines approved, (c) individual patient requests for medicines not approved and (d) medicines approved by the Scottish Government but not approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium.
Answer
In 2014-15 NHS boards required £1 million to support the Scottish Medicines Consortium decisions and £20.5 million to support individual and group patient treatment requests from the New Medicines Fund. The funding is not required by NHS boards for this purpose in 2014-15 remains available in 2015-16 on top of the new allocation made by the Scottish Government in 2015-16.