The U.K. National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has endorsed the use of stereotactic radiosurgery as a treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) after hearing from a patient group, promising more clinical bandwidth for these systems.
In one of its familiar U-turns, the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended NHS England should fund a rare disease gene therapy from Orchard Therapeutics plc, considered to be the world’s most expensive drug. The list price for Libmeldy (atidarsagene autotemcel) in England and Wales is £2,875,000 (US$3.9 million), making it the most expensive drug that NICE has ever evaluated.
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has endorsed the use of selective laser therapy treatment (SLT) instead of eyedrops as treatment of chronic open-angle glaucoma (COAG) and ocular hypertension. The shift would seem to drive spending in the U.K. away from drugs and toward devices for a condition afflicting nearly 10% of citizens over the age of 75.
LONDON – The industry is expressing divergent views of changes to how the U.K. health technology assessment agency, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), will in the future select what products to assess and the methods and processes it will use to carry out its evaluations.
LONDON – The industry is expressing divergent views of changes to how the U.K. health technology assessment agency, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), will in the future select what products to assess and the methods and processes it will use to carry out its evaluations.
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended the use of the Kardiamobile as an option for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) events in patients diagnosed with suspected paroxysmal AF. Alivecor Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., is the obvious beneficiary of the recommendation, a good bit of news given the company’s struggles to maintain patent protection for its products.
The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will welcome a new chief executive in February. Samantha Roberts was named to succeed Gillian Leng, who is retiring after 20 years at the agency. With extensive experience in health care delivery and as a clinician, Roberts currently serves as managing director for health and care at NHS England.
The rise of large national health care systems, mainly in Europe, has created an ongoing tension with the free market ethos of the pharma industry. After years of painstaking and costly research, drug makers want that moment when they can reap the rewards for their hard work bringing an innovative new therapy to the market. But in countries in Europe and beyond where there are national health care systems with stringent cost constraints, it’s not feasible to meet these price demands, at least without some form of rationing to keep down expenditure.
The U.K. National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued two health technology assessments dated Nov. 24, including one that gives a guarded recommendation for devices used to narrow the coronary sinus as a treatment for refractory angina. Neovasc Inc., of Richmond, British Columbia, touted the news as a positive for its Reducer device, given that this is the first instance in which NICE has lent any support for a device to treat the condition.
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said in a new health technology assessment that cardiac resynchronization devices using the Enduralife battery by Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX), are ready for prime time in the U.K. national health system.
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