Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is issued by NHS England to manufacturers on the negotiation of medical outcomes-based commercial agreements for products undergoing review by the specialised commissioning prioritisation process.

The published guidance about the specialised commissioning clinical prioritisation process is published on the NHS England website. This can be found here at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/spec-comm-service-development-policy.pdf

Where a product is already in scope of a framework tender process run by the commercial medicines unit instructions on offer submissions are provided via the standard supplier portal as part of the tender process in the usual way. No general guidance has been issued to manufacturers.