PrEP is a way of using anti-retroviral drugs – usually used for treating people with diagnosed HIV-  to stop viral transmission. Evidence of effectiveness is strongest for men who do not use condoms in sex with multiple male partners. On 21 March 2016, a statement was placed on the NHS England website explaining that PrEP could […]

NHS England has today announced that a collaboration between Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University has been awarded a contract to oversee the treatment of patients with aHUS, a rare, progressive condition which can lead to renal failure. Atypical Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (aHUS) is an extremely rare chronic condition which causes […]

NHS England ran a 30 day consultation on ‘Tenofovir Alafenamide for treatment of HIV 1 in adults and adolescents’ and ‘Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias’ early this year. The following documents that were part of the original suite of documents posted online as part of the […]

NHS England has launched a 30 day public consultation on two proposed new clinical commissioning policies for specialised services – specifically Rituximab for the treatment of Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome (PSS) in adults, and Rituximab in Connective Tissue Disease associated Interstitial Lung Disease in adults. There has already been extensive engagement on these policies. They have […]

NHS England has today launched a 30-day consultation on a proposed method to support decision-making on relative prioritisation in specialised commissioning. Each year, a significant number of proposals are put to NHS England for investment in new drugs, medical devices or interventions for use by specialised services in England. NHS England has to make difficult […]

NHS England has today announced a new nationwide system for purchasing expensive medical devices and implants which will see savings of over £60 million ploughed back into specialist care in its first two years. Currently NHS England spends £500 million a year reimbursing specialist units for devices such as implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for people […]

NHS England launched (04 April 2016) a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies), in an addition a 60 day public consultation has also been launched for the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy clinical commissioning policy. There has already been extensive […]

NHS England launched (21 March 2016) a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies). There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies. They have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and tested with […]

Work to date Over the last year, doctors, patient groups, Public Health England (PHE), NHS England and the Department of Health (DH) have worked together to investigate the role that Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) could play in preventing HIV in those at the highest risk PrEP is a new way of using anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) […]

NHS England has today (11 March 2016) launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services, (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies). There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies. They have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and […]