Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the process was by which reference prices for implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation defibrillators were determined.

Trust secondary user service (SUS) data and reference cost submissions for implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation defibrillators were used to collate draft average reference prices. These were validated and enhanced where appropriate from available procurement frameworks, recent market tenders, a project in the South West and work with a number of lead clinicians.