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Health Care Prioritisation

I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; I cannot refer to him as my hon. Friend, but he is a friend and a colleague on the Health Committee. I agree with much of what he has been saying and congratulate him on securing the debate. He has given two or three examples of treatments that have not yet been assessed by NICE—which are, so to speak, waiting to go through the process—and it is therefore perhaps not surprising that there is some variability in implementation from PCT to PCT. NICE has, however, recommended on a number of treatments that are not being fully funded by some PCTs—good examples are fertility treatments and rehabilitation for cardiac surgery patients. Do we not need to find some mechanism to ensure that PCTs implement decisions that have been made by NICE and recommendations that have gone through it?