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NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
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NICE helps health professionals implement our guidance by providing tools such as cost templates, audit criteria and slide sets.
NHS Evidence
In April 2009 NICE will launch NHS Evidence, a web-based service to help people find, access and use high-quality clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice... Read more about NHS Evidence.
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Organ preservation (renal) - machine perfusion & static storage (final appraisal determination)
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm - endovascular stent-grafts (final appraisal determination)
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Patients and lay people wanted for the GDG looking at the operation of donor breast milk banks
Latest guidance
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Osteoporosis - primary prevention
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Osteoporosis - secondary prevention including strontium ranelate
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Mental wellbeing and older people
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Pain (chronic neuropathic or ischaemic) - spinal cord stimulation
Appraising end of life medicines: consultation
NICE intends to supplement the advice it gives to its Appraisal Committees when they are asked to appraise life-extending medicines licensed for terminal illnesses affecting small numbers of patients...
See the consultation document
In focus: QOF consultation
The Department of Health (DH) has published a consultation document setting out proposals to reform the quality and outcomes framework (QOF), a programme of incentives offered annually to GP surgeries in the UK... Read the complete article
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