Policy responses and statements

Name of organisation:

The Scottish Parliament: Public Petitions Committee

Name of policy document:

Petition PE1108: Petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to consider the provision, on the NHS, of cancer treatment drugs, in particular cetuximab, to ensure equity across NHS boards on the appropriateness, effectiveness and availability of such treatments

Deadline for response:

30 January 2008

Background: The Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee agreed on 15 January 2008 to seek responses to the issues raised in Petition PE1108 from the Scottish Government, Scottish Medicines Consortium, Bowel Cancer UK, NHS Grampian, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Radiologists. The Committee also agreed to contact the Health and Sport Committee inviting it to consider undertaking an inquiry into the issues raised in the petition.

The College received a letter from the Public Petitions Committee seeking a written response to the specific issues raised in this petition and the relevant action our organisation is taking to address these. The Committee will give further consideration to the petition and the written responses at its meeting on 19 February.

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Copies of this response are available from:

Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.

Tel: 0131 225 7324 ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939

[30 January 2008]