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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has welcomed the inclusion of a rules-based pathway for medical technologies in the government’s NHS 10 year health plan.
The new approach is intended to ensure that high-impact devices, diagnostics and digital tools recommended by NICE to meet the most urgent health needs are nationally reimbursed and made available across the NHS in the same way that medicines are.
It means that select life-changing technologies will attract the same funding guarantees as medicines so that patients can access them faster and more fairly than before.
Sam Roberts, chief executive at NICE,…