NHS England will be launching a consultation ‘in the next few weeks’ to finalise details, the announcement today only confirms that the size of the IMF will be £340m. ‘The finalised fund will be subject to a formal public consultation in the next few weeks which will involve patient groups, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders.’
The announcement indicates that the IMF will, “provide treatments like cutting-edge gene therapies that could offer life-saving benefits and particularly help those with less common diseases where data collection on medicines effectiveness take longer to obtain due to the smaller patient cohort”.
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