Civil & Administrative

#2026/202Ulusal Sağlık ve Bakım Mükemmeliyeti Enstitüsü (Değişiklik) Yönetmelikleri 2026

🇬🇧United Kingdom··Statutory Instrument·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The 2026 amendments give the Secretary of State the authority to direct NICE on how to set cost-effectiveness thresholds for health technologies. This affects how NICE evaluates new health treatments and technologies for the NHS. Ultimately, it may influence decisions on which health technologies are funded.

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Key Changes

  • Introduces a power for the Secretary of State to direct NICE.
  • Affects the cost-effectiveness threshold NICE uses.
  • Applies to technology appraisals under existing regulations.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

NICE must apply cost-effectiveness thresholds as directed by the Secretary of State when conducting technology appraisals under regulation 7 of the 2013 Regulations

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
operational
high

NICE must apply cost-effectiveness thresholds as directed by the Secretary of State when appraising highly specialised health technologies under regulation 8 of the 2013 Regulations

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
operational
high

The Secretary of State has authority to issue directions to NICE regarding which cost-effectiveness threshold to apply to health technologies during appraisals

Secretary of State
operational

Affected Parties

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)NHS England+2 more…

Tags

healthcare,NICE,regulations