Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to minimise the cost of public sector innovation impact assessments related to the provision of healthcare services.
It is important that impact assessments are carried out on new approaches to healthcare to ensure the potential impacts and the costs and benefits are properly considered. Departments are expected to take a proportionate approach to the analysis required for impact assessments and the Department aims to do this in all cases.
We are committed to ensuring that the National Health Service becomes one of the best organisations in the world to deliver innovations to patient care faster, removing the barriers that prevent innovation and creating a climate where clinical pioneers have the freedom to make breakthroughs in treatment.