Health written question – answered at on 17 December 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the provision of IVF treatment will be monitored by the NHS scorecard scheme.
The publication of an Innovation Scorecard is a commitment in the NHS chief executive’s report “Innovation Health and Wealth”. It aims to drive national health service compliance with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) technology appraisals, which include medicines and medical technologies, by publishing levels of compliance at a local level. The Innovation Scorecard will help the NHS identify gaps in compliance which can then be justified, challenged or acted upon. The Innovation Scorecard is predicated on NICE technology appraisals, as there are clinical guidelines from NICE on the use of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) but no technology appraisals relating to IVF, the first Innovation Scorecard will not include IVF.
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