NICE's role is to improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services. We do this by:
- Producing evidence based guidance and advice for health, public health and social care practitioners.
- Developing quality standards and performance metrics for those providing and commissioning health, public health and social care services.
- Providing a range of informational services for commissioners, practitioners and managers across the spectrum of health and social care.
Evidence-based guidance and advice
Since 1999, we have provided the NHS, and those who rely on it for their care, with an increasing range of advice on effective, good value healthcare, and have gained a reputation for rigor, independence and objectivity. In April 2013 we gained new responsibilities for providing guidance for those working in social care.
Our guidance can be used by the NHS, local authorities, employers, voluntary groups and anyone else involved in delivering care or promoting wellbeing.
Our guidance takes several forms:
NICE guidelines make evidence-based recommendations on a wide range of topics, from preventing and managing specific conditions, improving health and managing medicines in different settings, to providing social care to adults and children, and planning broader services and interventions to improve the health of communities. They aim to promote integrated care where appropriate, for example, by covering transitions between children’s and adult services and between health and social care.
Technology appraisals assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies, such as new pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, but also include procedures, devices and diagnostic agents. This is` to ensure that all NHS patients have equitable access to the most clinically - and cost-effective treatments that are viable.
Our medical technologies and diagnostics guidance help to ensure that the NHS is able to adopt clinically and cost effective technologies rapidly and consistently.
Interventional procedures guidance recommends whether interventional procedures, such as laser treatments for eye problems or deep brain stimulation for chronic pain are effective and safe enough for use in the NHS.
Our guidance takes several forms:
NICE guidelines make evidence-based recommendations on a wide range of topics, from preventing and managing specific conditions, improving health and managing medicines in different settings, to providing social care to adults and children, and planning broader services and interventions to improve the health of communities. They aim to promote integrated care where appropriate, for example, by covering transitions between children’s and adult services and between health and social care.
Technology appraisals assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies, such as new pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, but also include procedures, devices and diagnostic agents. This is` to ensure that all NHS patients have equitable access to the most clinically - and cost-effective treatments that are viable.
Our medical technologies and diagnostics guidance help to ensure that the NHS is able to adopt clinically and cost effective technologies rapidly and consistently.
Interventional procedures guidance recommends whether interventional procedures, such as laser treatments for eye problems or deep brain stimulation for chronic pain are effective and safe enough for use in the NHS.
Evidence-based guidance and advice
Since 1999, we have provided the NHS, and those who rely on it for their care, with an increasing range of advice on effective, good value healthcare, and have gained a reputation for rigor, independence and objectivity. In April 2013 we gained new responsibilities for providing guidance for those working in social care.
NICE guidelines make evidence-based recommendations on a wide range of topics, from preventing and managing specific conditions, improving health and managing medicines in different settings, to providing social care to adults and children, and planning broader services and interventions to improve the health of communities. They aim to promote integrated care where appropriate, for example, by covering transitions between children’s and adult services and between health and social care.
Technology appraisals assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies, such as new pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products, but also include procedures, devices and diagnostic agents. This is` to ensure that all NHS patients have equitable access to the most clinically - and cost-effective treatments that are viable.
Our medical technologies and diagnostics guidance help to ensure that the NHS is able to adopt clinically and cost effective technologies rapidly and consistently.
Interventional procedures guidance recommends whether interventional procedures, such as laser treatments for eye problems or deep brain stimulation for chronic pain are effective and safe enough for use in the NHS.
Fellows and Scholars
Our Fellows and Scholars programme aims to foster a network of health and social care professionals committed to improving the quality of patient care within their local health and professional communities, as well as supporting the core values that underpin NICE's work.
NICE International
NICE International is helping to raise standards of healthcare around the world by providing advice and support to encourage the use of clinically and cost effective treatments. NICE Internation - which operates on a strict not-for-profit, fee-for-service basis - also carries out important research activities eesuch as generating case studies, preparing tools to help data analysis and encouraging shared learning through international meetings.