Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with his Danish counterpart on the cost-effectiveness of Orkambi in treating cystic fibrosis.
Answered by Steve Brine
We have had no such discussions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assessed the cost benefit of Orkambi and was unable to recommend it. Vertex has been encouraged to engage in negotiations with NHS England and if it comes forward with a new proposal, NICE will be able to reconsider.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health of Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with his French counterpart on the cost-effectiveness of Orkambi in treating cystic fibrosis.
Answered by Steve Brine
We have had no such discussions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assessed the cost benefit of Orkambi and was unable to recommend it. Vertex has been encouraged to engage in negotiations with NHS England and if it comes forward with a new proposal, NICE will be able to reconsider.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2017 to Question 105277, what the timetable is for the consultation on the new Accountable Care Organisation contract.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England will consult on the draft Accountable Care Organisation contract before any decision is made to issue it as a contract for wider use in the National Health Service.
NHS England has already undertaken wide engagement on this contract, including specific engagement on an early version in December 2016. Responses to the engagement exercise informed further development of an updated version of the draft contract published in August 2017.
It will always be for local commissioners to determine how to best deliver services to meet local needs. It is right that decisions on local services and service models are made by local commissioners, who can best assess how to meet the needs of people in their area. For any significant system reconfiguration, we expect all local parts of the system to be talking to the public and stakeholders regularly — it is vital that people can shape the future of their local services.
Asked by: David Linden (Scottish National Party - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his Department's policy that contracts associated with the formation of Accountable Care Organisations will not be outsourced to the private sector.
Answered by Steve Brine
In the very small number of places where local commissioners are running procurements for the award of such contracts, local National Health Service foundation trusts, NHS trusts and general practitioners have been selected as partners for delivery of those contracts.
The selection of an appropriate provider to hold such a contract will continue to be a matter for local NHS commissioners, and those commissioners must make that selection by way of a process which is compliant with the requirements of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. These involve openness, transparency and equal treatment of potential providers.