Drugs: Licensing
(asked on 19th June 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NICE appraisals have been terminated in (a) 2018-2019, (b) 2019-2020, (c) 2020-2021 and (d) 2021-2022.
The following table shows the number of appraisals terminated by the National institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the timeframes requested:
| 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Appraisals published (including terminated appraisals) | 56 | 53 | 63 | 94 |
Terminated appraisals | 6 | 10 | 13 | 19 |
Appraisals were terminated due to the company not making an evidence submission to NICE. NICE requires companies to submit evidence on the technology or technologies being evaluated. In line with its established process and methods, NICE terminates an evaluation if no evidence submission is received.