Department of Health written question – answered at on 8 November 2016.
Crispin Blunt
Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of NICE and NHS England's proposals to change arrangements for evaluating and funding drugs and other health technologies appraised through NICE's technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies programme, published in October 2016, for patients with (a) rare and (b) ultra-rare diseases.
Crispin Blunt
Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of NICE's and NHS England's proposals for changes to the arrangements for evaluating and funding drugs and other health technologies appraised through NICE's technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies programme, published in October 2016, on the right to drugs and treatments that have been recommended by NICE for use in the NHS, as set out in the NHS Constitution.
Nicola Blackwood
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The Department has made no such assessment.
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