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Closing date: 22 May 2009

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] published a joint consultation with DH on streamlining the Topic Selection process for NICE Technology Appraisals on 2nd March.

The DH and NICE have worked together to identify how the NICE topic selection process can be streamlined and shortened.  The proposed process will reduce the time it takes to refer non-cancer drugs to NICE by at least 3 months and will mean that drugs will routinely be referred to NICE more than a year before they receive a licence for use in the UK.

These proposals underpin the commitment the Department of Health made in ‘High Quality Care for All’ to work with NICE to enable them to produce consistently faster guidance on significant new drugs and treatments.

DH would like to invite responses to the consultation through the NICE website:

• Read consultation document on NICE website (opens new window)
• Download Impact Assessment (PDF, 508K)

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_095715

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