Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce a separate budgeting and adoption process for medical devices designated as innovative products.

The NHS Long Term Plan committed to accelerate the uptake of selected innovative medical devices, diagnostics and digital products by developing the MedTech Funding Mandate, which was launched on 1 April 2021. While local commissioners and providers decide how to allocate their resources in light of local priorities, the MedTech Funding Mandate will ensure specified National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approved, cost saving innovations are available to patients and funded locally.