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Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the proposed changes to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Highly Specialised Technology (HST) routing criteria aligns with the stated aim of HST to

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
11 Mar 2025
Answer
13 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the proposed changes to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Highly Specialised Technology (HST) routing criteria aligns with the stated aim of HST to

  2. 11 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Decisions on whether medicines should be evaluated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) through its highly specialised technologies (HST) programme are taken by NICE itself against a set of published criteria that have been deve...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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