Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 36558

Rare Diseases: Drugs

Tabled: 7 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Sadik Al-Hassan

LabourNorth Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence proposed changes to its Highly Specialised Technology routing criteria on acce

Answer

Karin Smyth
Decisions on whether medicines should be evaluated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) through its highly specialised technologies (HST) programme are taken by NICE itself against a set of published criteria that have been deve...

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