Extract from Commons debate on NICE Appraisals: Rare Diseases Treatments - Mar 21
Friday, 22 March 2019 08:17
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social
Care (Steve Brine):...I shall give the House two recent examples,
because of course we only ever hear about the examples that are
stuck or refused. NICE has been able to recommend orphan medicines
for Neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nerve cells that affects
children—this has been widely welcomed—and for primary biliary
cirrhosis, a progressive liver disease. Moreover, through its HST
programme, NICE has to date been able...Request free trial
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