Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many highly specialised technologies are awaiting assessment by NHS England which were not selected for consideration by NICE's highly specialised technology appraisal process.
NHS England is currently developing a refined process for the prioritisation of proposed new investments in specialised services and highly specialised services.
The number of technologies to be routinely commissioned by NHS England will be determined by the new process.