Department of Health written question – answered at on 7 November 2016.
Crispin Blunt
Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether recommendations made by NHS England's Clinical Priorities Advisory Group on the basis of inaccurate costings provided by NHS England are subject to an appeals process.
David Mowat
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
There is no formal appeals process for recommendations made by NHS England’s Clinical Priorities Advisory Group.
However, if there are continuing concerns over a decision a stakeholder could ask the Director of Specialised Commissioning to investigate if there is a belief that an error has been made; or could make a complaint to NHS England through the complaints procedure:
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