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Cancer: Medical Treatments

Commons · Question 3789 · Tabled 2 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2024

Question

Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the end-of-life modifier on cancer technology appraisals.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 11 Sep 2024

We have received briefings on the use of the severity modifier by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in the development of its guidance for the National Health Service, on whether new medicines should be routinely funded by the ...