To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many new (a) drugs and (b) treatments the NHS has approved in each of the last five years.
Answered on
24 March 2017
Information on the number of recommendations on drugs and other treatments that have been made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) through its technology appraisal programme in each of the last five calendar years is provided in the following tables.
Drugs | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Recommended | 23 | 12 | 19 | 30 | 38 |
Recommended for Cancer Drugs Fund1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Optimised (recommended for a subgroup of patients) | 1 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 26 |
Only in Research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: NICE’s full list of all published technology appraisal guidance recommendations
Other Treatments | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Recommended | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Recommended for Cancer Drugs Fund1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Optimised (recommended for a subgroup of patients) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Only in Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note: 1 New category of recommendation introduced in 2016 as part of the new operating framework for the Cancer Drugs Fund.
Source: NICE’s full list of all published technology appraisal guidance recommendations