Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Eddisbury of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 237W, on medical treatments, which appraisals conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the last four years resulted in a recommendation to use a medicine on the NHS and specified criteria for starting and stopping treatment with that medicine; which starting and stopping criteria were applied in each case; for what conditions each such treatment was recommended in each case; what the estimated eligible patient population was for each recommended treatment; and if he will make a statement.

Information about technology appraisals where the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has included criteria for starting and stopping treatment with the medicine appraised can be found within each published technology appraisal on NICE’s website at:

www.nice.org.uk

NICE has advised that collating the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.