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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2019-01-04more like thismore than 2019-01-04
answering body
Department of Health and Social Care more like this
answering dept id 17 more like this
answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
hansard heading Orphan Drugs remove filter
house id 1 more like this
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Scottish Medicines Consortium’s announcement on 8 October 2018 of the introduction of a revised definition for an ultra-orphan medicine, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of adopting the same definition. more like this
tabling member constituency Alyn and Deeside more like this
tabling member printed
Mark Tami remove filter
uin 205210 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2019-01-14more like thismore than 2019-01-14
answer text <p>The Department has made no such assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations for the National Health Service in England on the use of most new medicines through its technology appraisal programme and also operates a separate highly specialised technologies programme for the evaluation of very high cost drugs for the treatment of very small numbers of patients. NICE operates a topic selection process that includes consideration of individual topics against published criteria and engagement with stakeholders to determine whether topics are suitable for assessment by NICE and, if so, which programme is most appropriate.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Winchester more like this
answering member printed Steve Brine more like this
question first answered
less than 2019-01-14T16:19:01.103Zmore like thismore than 2019-01-14T16:19:01.103Z
answering member
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label Biography information for Steve Brine more like this
tabling member
1383
label Biography information for Mark Tami more like this