Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 36556

Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 7 March 2025

Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Sadik Al-Hassan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the proposed changes to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Highly Specialised Technology (HST) routing criteria aligns with the stated aim of HST to

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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