Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which groups consulted on the Summary Documents produced for the prioritisation meeting of the Clinical Priorities Advisory Board.

All of the policies being considered at the planned re-prioritisation meeting of the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group have been subject to both informal stakeholder testing and a formal period of public consultation where a number of documents were shared. These documents included the draft policy, engagement report, evidence review and impact assessment.

More recently, NHS England has been working with the suppliers and manufacturers associated with each policy to determine whether it might be possible for lower prices to be offered to reduce the estimated cost of implementation. If lower prices are possible, this may have the effect of either changing the relative priority of an individual policy and/or making more of the policies affordable overall.

NHS England has been sharing a summary of the feedback and price offers with individual suppliers for final checks and comments as it concludes this process, but has not shared these with a wider range of stakeholders, as many of these documents contain commercial in confidence information.