Dear stakeholders, As you will be aware, the Department for Health & Social Care has asked NICE to carry out a Single Technology Appraisal of Abatacept for preventing moderate to severe acute graft-versus-host disease after haematopoietic stem cell transplant in people 6 years and over [ID10679] For information, the company have advised that they are no longer pursuing a Marketing Authorisation Application from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for this indication at this time. Therefore, NICE has decided to suspend this appraisal from its current work programme. As this appraisal has been referred NICE will continue to monitor any development and will update interested parties if the situation changes.
 
Status Suspended
Technology type Medicine
Decision Selected
Reason for decision Anticipate the topic will be of importance to patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and the health of the public to ensure clinical benefit is realised, inequalities in use addressed, and help them make the best use of NHS resources
Process TA
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Date Update
29 November 2022 Suspended. Dear stakeholders, As you will be aware, the Department for Health & Social Care has asked NICE to carry out a Single Technology Appraisal of Abatacept for preventing moderate to severe acute graft-versus-host disease after haematopoietic stem cell transplant in people 6 years and over [ID10679] For information, the company have advised that they are no longer pursuing a Marketing Authorisation Application from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for this indication at this time. Therefore, NICE has decided to suspend this appraisal from its current work programme. As this appraisal has been referred NICE will continue to monitor any development and will update interested parties if the situation changes.
22 March 2022 Awaiting development. Status change linked to Topic Selection Decision being set to Selected

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