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Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken by integrated care boards to add new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended medicines to their formula

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 May 2025
Target answer date
19 May 2025
Answer
19 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken by integrated care boards to add new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended medicines to their formula

  2. 19 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 19 May 2025

    Answer published

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the NHS based on an assessment of their costs and benefits. The NHS in Engla...

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