Medical Treatments: Innovation

(asked on 18th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2017 to Question 106474, when the NICE evaluation report through the Commissioning through Evaluation programme on Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion will be published.


Answered by
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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 22nd December 2017

NHS England invested in a ‘commissioning through evaluation’ scheme which has provided additional data on the treatment’s cost and clinical effectiveness. NHS England advises that the scheme’s independent Evaluation Report - produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has been completed and an updated evidence review is being considered at NHS England’s national Clinical Panel in December.

If the evidence is supportive of a move to a routine commissioning position in the future, we will look to make a decision on a potential change to the national policy position on funding as soon as possible.

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