Status:
In progress
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:
STA Standard
ID number:
6239

Provisional Schedule

Committee meeting:
16 September 2026
Expected publication:
11 November 2026

Project Team

Project lead
Jeremy Powell

Email enquiries

If you have any queries please email TACommB@nice.org.uk

Stakeholders

Companies sponsors
Bristol Myers Squibb
Others
Department of Health and Social Care
 
NHS England
Patient carer groups
Addenbrookes Liver Transplant Association
 
Black Health Agency for Equality
 
British Liver Trust
 
Cancer Black Care
 
Cancer 52
 
GUTS UK
 
Haemochromatosis UK
 
Helen Rollason Cancer Charity
 
Hepatitis B Foundation UK
 
Hepatitis C Trust
 
Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice
 
Liver4Life
 
LIVErNorth
 
Macmillan Cancer Support
 
Maggie’s Centres
 
Marie Curie
 
Pelican Cancer Foundation
 
South Asian Health Foundation
 
Specialised Healthcare Alliance
Professional groups
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland
 
Association of Cancer Physicians
 
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland
 
British Association of the Study of the Liver
 
British Association of Surgical Oncology
 
British Geriatrics Society
 
British Hepatology Pharmacy Group
 
British Institute of Radiologists
 
British Oncology Pharmacy Association
 
British Psychosocial Oncology Society
 
British Society of Gastroenterology
 
British Society of Interventional Radiology
 
Cancer Research UK
 
Royal College of Anaesthetists
 
Royal College of General Practitioners
 
Royal College of Nursing
 
Royal College of Pathologists
 
Royal College of Physicians
 
Royal College of Radiologists
 
Royal College of Surgeons
 
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
 
Royal Society of Medicine
 
Society and College of Radiologists
 
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association
 
UK Oncology Nursing Society
Associated public health groups
Public Health Wales
 
UK Health Security Agency
Comparator companies
AstraZeneca (durvalumab, tremelimumab)
 
Bayer (sorafenib)
 
Biocon Biologics (bevacizumab)
 
Celltrion Healthcare (bevacizumab)
 
Dr Reddy's Laboratories (bevacizumab)
 
Eisai (lenvatinib)
 
Organon Pharma (bevacizumab)
 
Pfizer (bevacizumab)
 
Roche (atezolizumab, bevacizumab)
 
Sandoz (sorafenib)
 
Thornton and Ross (bevacizumab, sorafenib)
 
Zentiva Pharma (bevacizumab, sorafenib)
General commentators
All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre
 
Allied Health Professionals Federation
 
Board of Community Health Councils in Wales
 
British National Formulary
 
Care Quality Commission
 
Department of Health - Northern Ireland
 
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
 
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
 
National Association of Primary Care
 
National Pharmacy Association
 
NHS Confederation
 
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
 
Scottish Medicines Consortium
 
Welsh Government
Relevant research groups
Cochrane Hepato-biliary Group
 
Cochrane Infection Diseases Group
 
Foundation for Liver Research
 
Genomics England
 
Institute of Cancer Research
 
MRC Clinical Trials Unit
 
National Institute for Health Research

Timeline

Key events during the development of the guidance:

Date Update
16 February 2026 Invitation to participate
11 September 2025 In progress. Dear stakeholders, Please note that following on from a request received from the company, the timelines for this appraisal have been revised and the appraisal is now anticipated to begin during early January 2025 when we will write to you about how you can get involved. Submissions are expected in mid-March 2026.
03 February 2025 Note - Note added to the project documents
11 August 2022 Awaiting development. Status change linked to Topic Selection Decision being set to Selected

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