Medical Treatments
Commons · Question 52517 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 19 May 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken by integrated care boards to add new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended medicines to their formula
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 19 May 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the NHS based on an assessment of their costs and benefits. The NHS in Engla...