National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

3 Routing deliberation and decision

To ensure transparency and consistency of routing decisions, an HST routing assessment checklist (see appendix B) will be used to collate all relevant information by the NICE technical team, This information will be presented by the NICE technical team to the NICE prioritisation board for discussion and deliberation. At the end of the discussion and deliberation, the NICE prioritisation board members will vote on each routing criterion as 'met' or 'not met'. All 4 HST routing criteria need to be voted by the NICE prioritisation board as 'met' (that is with a majority vote of being met) for the technology to be routed to the HST Programme. If the NICE prioritisation board thinks more information is needed for them to discuss and deliberate, the decision will be deferred until there is more information. Rationales for the routing decisions will be captured in the HST routing assessment checklist. If there are split votes (50% compared with 50%) for any individual criterion, the NICE prioritisation board chair will have the deciding final vote.

All HST routing decisions will be available on the NICE prioritisation board webpage, This will also have the rationales for the decisions supplemented by the completed HST routing assessment checklist, and the timeframe to participate in the clarification process.