Status:
Awaiting development
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:
11905

Project Team

Project lead
Jeremy Powell

Email enquiries

If you have any queries please email [email protected]

Stakeholders

Companies sponsors
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals (resmetirom)
Others
Department of Health and Social Care
 
NHS England
Patient carer groups
All About Obesity
 
British Liver Trust
 
British Obesity Society
 
Diabetes UK
 
GUTS UK
 
HEART UK
 
Hemochromotosis UK
 
Liver4Life
 
LIVErNORTH
 
National Obesity Forum
 
Network of Sikh Organisations
 
Obesity Empowerment Network
 
Obesity Health Alliance
 
Obesity UK
 
South Asian Health Foundation
 
Specialised Healthcare Alliance
Professional groups
Association for the Study of Obesity
 
British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)
 
British Dietetic Association
 
British Geriatrics Society
 
British Hepatology Pharmacy Group
 
British Nutrition Foundation
 
British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
 
British Society of Gastroenterology
 
Faculty of Public Health
 
Hepatitis Nurse Specialist Forum
 
Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group
 
Nutrition Society
 
Obesity Management Association
 
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
 
Royal College of General Practitioners
 
Royal College of Nursing
 
Royal College of Pathologists
 
Royal College of Physicians
 
Royal College of Surgeons
 
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
 
Royal Society of Medicine
 
Society for Endocrinology
 
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association
Associated public health groups
Public Health Wales
 
UK Health Security Agency
Comparator companies
Alliance Pharmaceuticals (vitamin E)
 
Brown & Burk UK (pioglitazone)
 
Kora Healthcare (vitamin E)
 
Mylan (pioglitazone)
 
Neon Healthcare (pioglitazone)
 
Novo Nordisk Ltd (semaglutide)
 
Sandoz (pioglitazone)
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
Genomics England
 
MRC Clinical Trials Unit
 
National Institute for Health Research

Timeline

Key events during the development of the guidance:

Date Update
10 July 2025 Invitation to participate
16 April 2025 Referral
11 April 2025 This topic will now be progressed as a Multiple Technology Appraisal (MTA) alongside the following topic; Semaglutide for treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with liver fibrosis [ID6458] The Invitation to Participate (ITP) will now be issued week commencing 07 July 2025 and the MTA title and ID number is: Resmetirom and semaglutide for treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with liver fibrosis [ID6458] Details of the MTA process can be found within the health technology evaluation manual on our website.
13 September 2023 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