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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

475 c311-48WH 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Government response to the Health Select Committee first report of session 2007-08 (HC 27).
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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Health Select Committee first report in 2 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 503 i-v 2006-07 and HC 27-i 2007-08 not printed separately) and appendices.
Monday, 17 December 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c343-4WH (Link to this contribution) There are two steps in the discussion and several processes are involved. The first is to assess wha...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c343WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister's sentiment, but one of the problems in Hampshire, which the hon. Member for ...

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Maria Miller | 475 c344WH (Link to this contribution) I was taken aback to be told that the rethink of the IVF policy in Hampshire was going to be conduct...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c344-5WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is, I believe, referring to the collection of information and to ensuring that PCTs te...

Kevin Barron | 475 c345-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I congratulate the Minister on speaking for 35 minutes and not mentioning the R-wo...

Kevin Barron | 475 c311-7WH (Link to this contribution) To preface the debate, I thank the secretariat of the Select Committee on Health, whose seven member...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c317WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend in mid flow, but I think that it would be helpful if I tell h...

Kevin Barron | 475 c317WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that. I know that if someone is given a strong letter that says th...

Maria Miller | 475 c327-8WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has raised an important point. Presumably, what she as a Minister in the Department of ...

Maria Miller | 475 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is with a little caution that I rise to speak after the hon. Members for Dartford (Dr. Stoate) an...

Ian Gibson | 475 c326WH (Link to this contribution) First, does the hon. Lady think that fastness is not always associated with accuracy of information,...

Maria Miller | 475 c326WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising those points. I will discuss the length of time that should b...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c326-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is touching on an important wider point for the health service, and perhaps she will s...

Ian Gibson | 475 c322WH (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend include orphan drugs and ultra-orphan drugs in the mystique that he mentions, w...

Howard Stoate | 475 c322-4WH (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who does a huge amount of work for cancer patients and who has quit...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c324WH (Link to this contribution) We all like to get hung up on the question of thresholds, but surely the hon. Gentleman saw the evid...

Howard Stoate | 475 c324-5WH (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Lady's point, which underlines the great difficulty that we had in making some of ...

Howard Stoate | 475 c322WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the important point that we are moving in the right direction, but we have a lo...

Howard Stoate | 475 c321WH (Link to this contribution) I shall start by paraphrasing Kryten from the TV series ““Red Dwarf””. There are two problems facing...

David Drew | 475 c322WH (Link to this contribution) The Committee's Chairman referred to this earlier, but I have taken part in two events organised by ...

Ian Gibson | 475 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Appetising. Well paid.

Richard Taylor | 475 c320-1WH (Link to this contribution) Oh! I have no information about how much those people get paid. No doubt some of guests in the Publi...

Ian Gibson | 475 c320WH (Link to this contribution) Why are there so few in Britain? Is it just not an appetising job?

Richard Taylor | 475 c320WH (Link to this contribution) An advertising job?

Sandra Gidley | 475 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I am slightly confused by the hon. Gentleman saying that we do not want clinical freedom. I am sure ...

Richard Taylor | 475 c319-20WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that helpful comment. I do not want to be misconstrued. I am talking about when it...

Ian Gibson | 475 c318-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the need to get evidence earlier. Is that because it comes from the l...

Richard Taylor | 475 c319WH (Link to this contribution) That is one of the huge difficulties with drugs. Some of their effects—good and bad—are not discover...

Richard Taylor | 475 c318WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to follow our Chairman, who is allowing us to get out some quite strong cond...

Howard Stoate | 475 c318WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that there is a great difference between time-honoured and eviden...

Richard Taylor | 475 c318WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my friend and medical colleague for that. I absolutely accept that, but things should not be...

Maria Miller | 475 c329WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that. I am sure that what she has said is right, but when UK pharmaceutical...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c329WH (Link to this contribution) I was at the annual dinner of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry only last week....

Kevin Barron | 475 c332WH (Link to this contribution) When we took evidence from the would-be chair of the CQC in this morning's public session, we heard ...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c329-32WH (Link to this contribution) It is fair to point out in my opening remarks that the Committee has looked at the National Institut...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c332WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, but the matter is not being dealt with at the moment. The CQC will have enough problems trying ...

Mark Simmonds | 475 c332-4WH (Link to this contribution) First, may I say what a pleasure it is to have you in the Chair, Mr. Gale? I thank hon. Members, the...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c334WH (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with the hon. Gentleman, but does he agree that one aspect of the inconsisten...

Mark Simmonds | 475 c334-7WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the first part of the hon. Lady's intervention that this is an extremely important matt...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c337WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman for giving the impression that the appraisal committee was dominat...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c339WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will let me reassure her on one further point, I will happily give way. The basis f...

Maria Miller | 475 c339WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c338-9WH (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting and thoughtful debate, and I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Memb...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I agree that a constructive, productive working relationship with the pharmaceutical industry is vit...

Maria Miller | 475 c339WH (Link to this contribution) I completely endorse the Minister's remarks about value for money. Does she share my concern that th...

Mark Simmonds | 475 c337-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for clarifying that. The final point I shall make is about the implem...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Lady and come back to the hon. Gentleman.

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with the one-sided view that the hon. Gentleman is giving with regard to the negotiat...

Mark Simmonds | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I just want to clarify a point that she has raised. Of...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c340-3WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Gale. The Select Committee has raised these issues with me, and some of its recommend...

Speaker | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I have allowed the debate to continue because the future of the PPRS is clearly an important ...

Baroness Primarolo | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) On the first point, the agreement was between the Government and the industry. The points with regar...

Sandra Gidley | 475 c340WH (Link to this contribution) I have two quick questions. First, with the PPRS, am I correct in thinking that either side can ask ...

Subjects

Costs Health services Drugs NHS Medical treatments National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Research

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