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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the length of time taken was to select each drug that has been referred for each of the stages of her Department's topic selection process for drugs and treatments referred to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 December 2005

Reference

440 c840W;440 c840W; 31930

House

House of Commons

Advisory Committee on Topic Selection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) remit and (b) membership of the Advisory Committee on Topic Selection is; and how often the Committee meets.

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

22 November 2005

For answer on

24 November 2005

Answered on

2 December 2005

The terms of reference of the Advisory Committee for Topic Selection are:"On the basis of the criteria agreed by Ministers, assess the requirement for guidance in respect of clinical issues identified by the National Horizon Scanning Centre, by the National Co-ordinating Centre Health Technology Assessment, by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and other sources of internal and external advice.""To advise Ministers whether referral to NICE is the most appropriate means of meeting those requirements.""Where referral to the NICE is recommended, to advise further whether:""(a) guidance should take the form of a technology appraisal, a clinical guideline, or some other combination or form of guidance;""(b) (in the case of technology appraisals of new technologies) whether guidance should issue at around the expected time of launch, or whether the appraisal should be deferred for a period."The Advisory Committee for Topic Selection is chaired by a senior Department official and is made up of representatives of"the professions—medical, nursing, primary care and allied healthcare;""patient groups—the Consumers Association, Royal National Institute for Deaf People, The Pain Society and Diabetes UK;""the national health service—a mental health trust, an acute trust, a strategic health authority and a primary care trust;""industry—the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries and the Association of British Healthcare Industries;""the Director of the Health Technology Assessment Programme and the Chairman of the Technology Assessment Services Collaboration; and""representatives of key policy areas within the Department."

Date

2 December 2005

Reference

440 c839-40W;440 c839-40W; 31929

House

House of Commons

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