Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria NHS England and her Department use to select and prioritise technologies for consideration under the National Health Tech Access Programme.

I refer the Hon. Member to Annex A of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Topic Selection Manual, published on 25 August, which is available at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg46/chapter/annex-a-national-healthtech-access-programme