# Scottish Medicines Consortium

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## TL;DR

Scotland's health technology assessment body, which advises NHS Scotland on new medicines and applies a more flexible approach for end-of-life and orphan cancer drugs.

## Summary

Established in 2001, the Scottish Medicines Consortium advises NHS Scotland on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of all newly licensed medicines, working separately from NICE. Its Patient and Clinician Engagement process, introduced in 2014, gives additional weight to patient and clinician evidence for end-of-life and very rare conditions, and its ultra-orphan pathway allows access while evidence is collected, so some cancer drugs are available in Scotland before or without a NICE recommendation. The SMC is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland and works with the MHRA and NICE on the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: SMC
- City: Glasgow, GB
- Type: government
- Website: https://scottishmedicines.org.uk

## Sources

- Scottish Medicines Consortium: https://scottishmedicines.org.uk

## Connected records

- institutions: [Cancer Research UK](https://onco.cc/institutions/cruk/), [ISPOR (The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research)](https://onco.cc/institutions/ispor/), [Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency](https://onco.cc/institutions/mhra/), [National Institute for Health and Care Excellence](https://onco.cc/institutions/nice/)
- terms: [ILAP (Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway)](https://onco.cc/terms/ilap/), [NICE technology appraisal methods (2022)](https://onco.cc/terms/nice-methods/), [Real-world evidence](https://onco.cc/terms/real-world-evidence/)
- people: [Robert Peel](https://onco.cc/people/robert-peel/)
- bottlenecks: [Prices and value](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-drug-pricing/), [Rare and paediatric cancers without markets](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-rare-cancers/)

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