Medical Treatments: Cost Effectiveness
Commons · Question 56449 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the real-terms value of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s £30,000 Quality-Adjusted Life Year threshold since its introduction in
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 10 Jun 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) considers the overall resources available to the National Health Service when determining whether an intervention represents value for money. Therefore, decisions about a new technology must con...