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Question reference: S5W-19353

Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 10 October 2018
Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 26 October 2018

Question

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question to S5W-18905 by Joe FitzPatrick on 5 October 2018, what guidance has been issued regarding the use of Rezum as a treatment.

Answer

In September 2018, The National Institute for Health and Care <br>Excellence (NICE) published interventional procedures guidance <br>on the use of transurethral water jet ablation for lower urinary tract <br>symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia <br>(link: <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ipg629"> https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ipg629 </a> )

The Interventional Procedures (IP) programme aims to protect the
safety of patients and to support doctors. Each piece of guidance
makes recommendations about whether the interventional
procedure is safe enough and works well enough for routine use.
NHS Scotland is part of the IP programme and all IP guidance is
applicable in Scotland
(link: http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/
technologies_and_medicines/nice_guidance_and_scotland/
interventional_procedures.aspx )

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