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National Cancer Medicines Advisory Group (NCMAG)

We provide advice to NHSScotland on certain uses of cancer medicines.

We review medicines uses that are:

  • off-label
  • off-patent

These kinds of medicines uses are not reviewed by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).

Published advice

Medicine uses we have advised on

Medicine uses under review

Medicine uses scheduled to be reviewed

How to submit a medicine for review

Clinicians can ask us to review certain uses of cancer medicines

Programme background

Information on the purpose of NCMAG