RE: Specialist Commissioning of the MTRNR1 Hearing Loss Test - explained - it will happen!13 Jan 2024 08:26
Excellent post from Stephen11 on Special Commissioning. Just to add a bit more meat to the bones, some pointers from the NHS website on Specialist Commissioning:
1)Specialised services support people with a range of rare and complex conditions.
2)These services include a range of treatments, from interventions that most of us have heard of, such as chemotherapy...through to pioneering procedures that are currently only carried out in small numbers.
3)We have a legal duty to fund certain new medicines and devices recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), but we also make available additional funding each year for other new treatments.
4)For these new treatments, we have to make complex decisions about which represent the best value for patients and taxpayers. We have a duty to ensure that new treatments are supported by convincing evidence of safety and effectiveness, that they are affordable and offer value for money, and that decisions about them are fair and transparent.
5)All the proposed new treatments are independently assessed by the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) on their likely relative clinical benefit and relative cost.
IMHO, going by the above criteria, Genedrive's MT-RNR1 ID Kit would seem to be a no brainer for acceptance.