Medical Treatments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a facility for the NHS to approve treatments without external payment for assessment by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) charges companies for the development of its technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies recommendations on medicines and other health technologies. Where a company does not participate in the NICE appraisal process, the default National Health Service position will be to not routinely commission the intervention for the stated indication. This is to avoid a potential pathway for circumventing the NICE process. In some cases, such as where there is no single company that markets the medicine or technology under evaluation, NICE evaluations can be funded from other sources, such as from NICE’s core Government funding or NHS England.
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