All National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) articles – Page 30
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NICE values some patients' lives more
Mike Richards’ review of what to do about top-ups seems to reaffirm the line that the NHS should not subsidise private consumption of healthcare.
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NICE issues draft guidance on absence management
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced the first draft of its public health guidance on long-term sickness absence management.
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Improving health with NICE guidance, supported by NICE
Winner: Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT and Mid Cheshire PCTNICE guidelines were the starting point for a project that set out to reduce incidences of pressure ulcers across primary and secondary care
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Supporting NICE in assessing delivery on advice
The NHS Information Centre's prescribing support unit produces data that allows the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to review current patterns of care; to estimate the potential cost of recommendations; and to monitor the implementation of their guidance.
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NICE awards promote shared learning
With the next stage review promoting quality over cost, now is the time to develop better ways of sharing best practice. As the closing date for the annual NICE awards nears, HSJ talks to last year's winners
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Where NICE leads, can commissioners follow?
There is still a chasm between the process of writing recommendations and the people responsible for commissioning the services to deliver them. Can world class commissioning bring these closer together, asks Martin Dougherty
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Alan Maynard on hard questions for NICE
Everyone accepts that resources are scarce and that rationing in the NHS is ubiquitous. Rationing involves depriving patients of care from which they might benefit and would like to have. The most explicit instrument for rationing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the National Institute for Health and Clinical ...
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NICE guidance supplement: steps to success
The work of NICE goes beyond the headline-grabbing stories that sometimes follow its rulings on which drugs should or should not be used.
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Implementing NICE guidance
Winner Oxleas Foundation trust The project implements NICE guidance on Schizophrenia across a London based mental health trust. An audit measured trust practice against the guidelines and against a technology appraisal for the use of atypical antipsychotic prescribed to service users.The scheme concentrated on focusing on what clinicians need at ...
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The NICE threshold
How costly or cheap, relative to its benefits, does a healthcare technology have to be to justify its rejection or acceptance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence?
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Implementing NICE Guidance
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