Agenda and minutes

1.1.      Apologies were received from Leighton Andrews AM and Lynne Neagle AM. Jenny Rathbone AM acted as a substitute for Lynne Neagle AM.

Cedar

Dr Grace Carolan-Rees

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Sally Chisholm

Dr Peter Groves, clinician and vice-chair of NICE’s Medical Technology Advisory Committee

2.1. The witnesses responded to questions from Committee members.

2.2. Sally Chisholm agreed to provide the following additional information:

• References to evidence exploring the factors that influence people – from a multi-disciplinary perspective – to decide whether or not to integrate individual technologies into their clinical practice;
• Further detail about which health bodies in Wales currently feed in to NICE’s development of guidance and overall work programme;
• Further detail about the incentivisation scheme – Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payments – in place in England to encourage uptake of innovation within the health service.

Dr Susan Peirce

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Professor Stephen Keevil, President

Professor Colin Gibson, Consultant Clinical Engineer

3.1. The witnesses responded to questions from Committee members.

Professor Ceri Phillips, Professor of Health Economics, Swansea University

Professor David Cohen, Retired Professor of Health Economics at the University of South Wales

4.1. The witnesses responded to questions from Committee members.

4.2. The Committee adjourned briefly during item 4 due to a technical difficulty.

Letter from Christine Chapman, Chair of the Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee, in relation to the First Minister’s evidence session on matters relating to the Welsh language

5.1. The Committee noted its intention to invite the Welsh Language Commissioner to a future session. The purpose of the session will be to explore issues arising as part of her inquiry into primary care in Wales, and to explore other matters that fall under her jurisdiction that are within the Committee’s remit.