Medical Equipment: Finance

(asked on 12th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the funding available under the Medtech Funding Mandate to ensure that all innovative, cost saving NICE recommended medical devices are made available to patients in line with the NHS Constitution.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 17th November 2021

In parallel with the MedTech Funding Mandate, the Department is considering and engaging with industry on a range of approaches to tackle the underlying causes of the lack of adoption. This will be addressed as part of a MedTech strategy which we expect to publish in the first half of 2022. This strategy will consider the role that initiatives such as the MedTech Funding Mandate can play, as well as complimentary solutions.

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