Severe pectus excavatum treatment

Early day motion 736, tabled 9 January 2023 by Karl Turner (Labour). Signed by 9 members.

That this House is concerned that the decision by NHS England to withdraw the surgery treatment for severe pectus excavatum and carinatum in its Clinical Commissioning Policy in 2019 has created a block for patients to access the relevant surgery; notes that severe pectus excavatum and carinatum treatment is routinely commissioned in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and that due to the decommissioning of this service by NHS England in 2019, there is no surgery available and, in addition, no individual funding requests are being approved even for the most severe cases; acknowledges some moves by NHS England to allow 10 surgeries per year and support a study into the severest 10 per cent of patients; highlights that 90 per cent of patients who receive surgery in the devolved nations would not be able to receive the same procedure in England; notes that no teenagers or young adults with severe psychological distress have any access to surgery, no matter how deforming this abnormality is; and calls on the Government to bring into force, without delay, a timetable for reversing this NHS England Clinical Commissioning Policy.

Signatures by party: Labour 6, DUP 1, Labour/Co-operative 1, Scottish National Party 1.