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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 4 Apr 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Apr 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for developing the methods and processes that its independent committees use in their evaluations, independently and in consultation with stakeholders. The severity modifier is ba...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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General Practitioners: Recruitment
2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition on 2 April 2025, how 1,000 new GPs were recruited.
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West: Finance
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Integrated Care Board cuts on the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West ICB.
Community Diagnostic Centres: Finance
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed Integrated Care Board cuts on Community Diagnostic Centres.
Bowel Cancer: Screening
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS England pilot of reducing the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g on
Bowel Cancer: Screening
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of colonoscopy capacity for providing the bowel cancer screening programme.
Bowel Cancer: Screening
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the colonoscopy capacity that would be required for the wider roll out of NHS England pilot to reduce the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Scre
Palliative Care: Standards
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures to improve the quality of palliative and end of life care will be included in the 10 Year Health Plan.
Palliative Care
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the number of people with palliative care needs over the next 10 years.
Palliative Care: Finance
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on providing long term, sustainable funding for palliative and end of life care services.
Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement 2025; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of
Rare Cancers: Health Services
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national cancer strategy will include commitments to improve outcomes for (a) acute myeloid leukaemia and (b) other rare and less common cancers.