Question follow-through · 74493
Diseases: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the manner in which NICE considers carer-related quality of life in its assessments of treatments for (a) rare, (b) progressive and (c) paediatric diseases.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2025 · 6 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
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the manner in which NICE considers carer-related quality of life in its assessments of treatments for (a) rare, (b) progressive and (c) paediatric diseases.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) technology appraisal process allows its independent committees to take societal benefits, such as health-related quality-of-life for carers and impacts on personal social services, into accoun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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