Health and Social Care Bill

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

Prepared 19th December 2011