Making NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair

Michael Rawlins

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s former chair Sir Michael Rawlins has criticised NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ the body’s guidelines but said making them mandatory would be ‘counterproductive’.

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