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Prescription Drugs

Commons · Question 29289 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 13 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Steve Yemm

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the length of appraisals conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) under its cost-comparison appraisal process; and whether he has

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 13 Feb 2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) aims, wherever possible, to issue recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines should be routinely funded around the time of licensing, to support rapid patient acces...