Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 101600

Drugs and Medical Treatments: Finance

Tabled: 18 December 2025
Answered: 19 January 2026

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NICE positive recommendations in each year since 2023 were issued as optimised decisions; and what proportion of the eligible patient population was able to access those medicines on the N

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The following table shows the number of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations since 2023 that have been issued as optimised decisions:YearNumberPercentage of all publications excluding terminations2023/243748%2024/253343...

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