Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish the names of the organisations which took part in the early engagement programme with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence before the publication of its new methods and processes for its health technology evaluation programme.

While there was no specific early engagement programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) recent review of its methods and processes for health technology evaluation was overseen by a steering group and working group. The organisations which participated in these groups are as follows:

Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, NICE;

Centre for Guidelines, NICE;

Centre for Health Economics, University of York;

NHS England and NHS Improvement;

The Office for Life Sciences;

The Department of Health and Social Care;

NICE appraisal committee;

British In Vitro Diagnostics Association;

The Association of the British Pharmaceuticals Industry;

The Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance;

The British Medical Journal Technology Assessment Group;

The Ethical Medicines Industry Group;

The BioIndustry Association;

Genetic Alliance;

ReCor Medical UK, Association of British HealthTech Industries;

School of Health and Related Research, the University of Sheffield;

Alzheimer's Research UK.