Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100725

Cancer: Drugs

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 7 January 2026

Question

Dr Scott Arthur

LabourEdinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department made an impact assessment of the effect of NICE’s severity modifier, introduced in 2020, on the ability of cancer medicines to meet the new ‘high severity’ threshold for appr

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for the methods and processes that it uses in the development of its recommendations. The severity modifier was introduced in January 2022 as part of a number of changes intended ...

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