Health Services: Finance

(asked on 24th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the proposals for changes to the arrangements for evaluating and funding drugs and other health technologies appraised through NICE's technology appraisal and highly specialised programmes, published on 13 October 2016, what international evidence was taken into account when setting out the proposals for the (a) implementation and (b) level of the budget impact threshold.


This question was answered on 2nd December 2016

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England have advised that the proposals to implement a budget impact threshold, and the level of that threshold, were based on consideration of the frequency and magnitude of high budget impact technologies that have recently received a positive recommendation from NICE, rather than any attempt to compare the different affordability challenges faced by different health economies around the world.

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