Last call for members to complete questionnaire on Agenda for Change
16 January 2013
NICE ‘to lose powers to decide on new drugs’
The government's drug rationing body, Nice, is to be stripped of its power to turn down new medicines for use in the NHS, the Guardian reports.
The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, believes that Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, should continue to write guidelines for doctors on the best treatments for their patients, but the Guardian understands he will remove its controversial power to ban the use of drugs it considers too expensive for the benefit they offer.
