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NICE and Fair? Health Technology Assessment Policy Under the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 1999–2018
In any healthcare system operating with finite resources, decisions must be made about how those resources are allocated. This inevitably creates both ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, as some groups find their needs prioritised while others are prevented from accessing potentially beneficial technologies. Healthcare priority-setting is thus an essential but often contentious activity, which must be subject to robust justification if its outcomes are to be considered ethically, socially and politically acceptable.
The heated debate that often surrounds priority-setting is reflected in the experiences of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Tasked by the UK government…
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Thousands to benefit faster after NICE revamps appraisal process
NICE has been able to expedite the approval process by using its new proportionate approach to technology appraisals, enabling it to review nintedanib a full two months quicker than usual. The new approach acknowledges that not all technologies need to go through the entire appraisal process; in view of that, NICE are “simplifying, removing, or reconfiguring” parts of the exiting process.
National Institute for Clinical Excellence: NICE works
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence was established in 1999. Its original remit was to undertake technology appraisals of (mainly) new interventions and to develop clinical guidelines. In providing both forms of guidance, it was required to take into account both clinical and cost effectiveness. After a difficult first few months, it gained the confidence and trust of the professions.
Saying No Isn't NICE — The Travails of Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
The NHS usually does not provide medicines or treatments that are not recommended by NICE — although exceptions are possible.NICE (www.nice.org.uk), however, has been criticized for the slow release of its appraisals, which has delayed the availability of some treatments that . . .
NICE and Fair? Health Technology Assessment Policy Under the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 1999–2018
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for conducting health technology assessment (HTA) on behalf of the National Health Service (NHS). In seeking to justify its recommendations to the NHS about which technologies to fund, NICE claims to adopt two complementary ethical frameworks, one procedural—accountability for reasonableness (AfR)—and one substantive—an ‘ethics of opportunity costs’ (EOC) that rests primarily on the notion of allocative efficiency.
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