§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what definition his Department uses of "clinically effective". [7430]
§ Ms JowellThe Departments's 1996 publicationPromoting Clinical Effectiveness defined clinical effectiveness as the extent to which specific clinical interventions, when deployed in the field for a particular patient of population, do what they are intended to do—that is, maintain and improve health and secure the greatest possible health gain from the available resources. This definition is still used.