Abiraterone

(asked on 17th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has approved any drugs with a higher incremental cost-effectiveness ratio than abiraterone for high-risk, non-metastatic prostate cancer in the last five years.


Answered by
Zubir Ahmed Portrait
Zubir Ahmed
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th October 2025

NHS England has not calculated the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for any policy proposition because NHS England uses a relative prioritisation process for policy propositions that require funding in line with the published NHS England Specialised Commissioning Service Development Policy, a copy of which is attached.

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