Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for NICE to publish its review of the Highly Specialised Technologies process.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will begin reviewing the process and methods for the Highly Specialised Technology Evaluation Programme in 2019/20 with the anticipation that the publication will be achieved by the end of the 2020 calendar year.