Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 29288

Prescription Drugs

Tabled: 5 February 2025

Answered: 13 February 2025

Question

Steve Yemm

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for reducing waiting times for medicines assessed though the cost-comparison approach.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) aims, wherever possible, to issue recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines should be routinely funded around the time of licensing, to support rapid patient acces...

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