Suggested remit: To appraise the clinical and cost effectiveness of finerenone within its marketing authorisation for treating heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction.

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:
6514

Provisional Schedule

Committee meeting: 1:
08 April 2026
Expected publication:
04 June 2026

Project Team

Project lead
Leena Issa

Email enquiries

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


External Assessment Group:
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield

Stakeholders

Companies sponsors
Bayer plc (finerenone)
Others
Department of Health and Social Care
 
NHS England
Patient carer groups
Pumping Marvellous Foundation
Professional groups
British Cardiovascular Society
 
British Society for Heart Failure
 
Primary Care Cardiovascular Society
 
Royal College of Physicians
 
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association
Associated public health groups
None
Comparator companies
AstraZeneca (dapagliflozin) (confidentiality agreement signed, participating)
 
Boehringer Ingelheim (empagliflozin) (confidentiality agreement signed, participating)
 
Accord Healthcare (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
ADVANZ Pharma (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
AS Kalceks (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Baxter Healthcare (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Hameln Pharmaceuticals (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Ipca Laboratories UK (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Mylan (bumetanide, torasemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Pinewood Healthcare (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Rosemont Pharmaceuticals (bumetanide, furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Thame Laboratories (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
 
Tillomed Laboratories (furosemide) (confidentiality agreement not signed, not participating)
General commentators
All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre
 
British National Formulary
 
Department of Health - Northern Ireland
 
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
 
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
 
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee
 
Scottish Medicines Consortium
 
Welsh Government
Relevant research groups
None

Related links

Timeline

Key events during the development of the guidance:

Date Update
28 August 2025 Invitation to participate
29 April 2025 - 29 May 2025 Consultation on suggested remit, draft scope and provisional stakeholder list of consultees and commentators: 6514
29 April 2025 In progress. Scoping commencing
16 April 2025 Referral
14 November 2024 Awaiting development. Status change linked to Topic Selection Decision being set to Selected

For further information on our processes and methods, please see our CHTE processes and methods manual