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AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
IN COMMITTEE
[Supplementary to the Fourteenth Marshalled List]
After Clause 234
LORD HUNT OF KINGS HEATH
BARONESS THORNTON
344ZA*
Insert the following new Clause—
“Duties of clinical commissioning groups in respect of NICE guidance
A clinical commissioning group shall be required to ensure that a health care intervention that is recommended by NICE in technology appraisal guidance is, from a date not later than three months from the date of the technology appraisal, normally available—
(a) to be prescribed for any patient on a prescription form for the purpose of his or her NHS treatment;
(b) to be supplied or administered to any patient for the purposes of his or her NHS treatment.”
Schedule 17
LORD HUNT OF KINGS HEATH
BARONESS THORNTON
340W*
Page 413, line 15, leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert—
“( ) The Chair will be appointed by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Health Select Committee of the House of Commons.”
340X*
Page 414, line 6, leave out paragraph 3