Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for the NHS England 2018-19 specialised commissioning annual prioritisation process; and if he will make a statement.
NHS England expects to publish its prioritisation decisions for specialised services for the financial year 2017/18 in the spring of 2017.
Clinical policy propositions that were not funded on grounds of affordability in the 2016/17 prioritisation round will have the opportunity to be considered again alongside new proposals being put forward for prioritisation in 2017/18.