The NHS should pay for Novartis’ £1.79 million one-off gene therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) NICE has said, the most expensive treatment ever approved for funding.
NHS patients in England will not be able to get access to AstraZeneca’s PARP inhibitor Lynparza if they have BRCA-positive advance prostate cancer, according to draft guidance from NICE.
Eli Lilly’s JAK inhibitor Olumiant has become the first drug in the JAK inhibitor class to be recommended for NHS use in England and Wales as a treatment for atopic dermatitis, also known a
NICE has recommended moving Novartis’ Kisqali (ribociclib) from interim funding arrangements to regular NHS reimbursement for certain previously treated breast cancer patients.
It’s back to the drawing board for bluebird bio and its discussions with NICE, which has rejected its beta thalassaemia gene therapy Zynteglo for regular NHS use in first draft guidance.
NICE has backed regular NHS funding England and Wales for Merck, Sharp and Dohme’s Keytruda in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy in certain lung cancer patients.