To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether all patients receiving chemotherapy cancer treatment at a self-governing trust hospital or a directly managed hospital will have the drug Ondansetron available to them if it is prescribed by the senior medical doctor in charge of their treatment.

Ondansetron is available for prescription by doctors throughout the national health service for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for cancer. Some hospitals, however, have drawn up formularies of preferred treatments for many conditions from which the doctors involved would usually prescribe.