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Everything you need to know about NICE standards and guidance for high-quality health and social care. Get updates, advice, and local support from our field team. Contact fieldteam@nice.org.uk for more information.
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(almost) everything you wanted to know about NICE Stephen Judge, Implementation Consultant SW
NICE Field Team • Eight consultants based in the field - the ‘local face’ of NICE • Providing people implementing NICE guidance with updates, advice and support for your local strategies for implementation fieldteam@nice.org.uk
What is NICE? • World leader in setting standards for high quality care and for promoting healthy living • 2013 new remit for social care – renamed National Institute for Health and Care Excellence • Evidence-based guidance and other products from NICE help resolve uncertainty about best quality care and what represents value for money • www.nice.org.uk
Health and Social Care Act NICE may be directed to prepare statements of standardsin relation to the provision of: • NHS service • Public health services or • Social care in England. In discharging its duty, the NHS Commissioning Board/Secretary of State must have regard to the quality standards prepared by NICE. Organisations improving the quality of health services must have regard to the quality standards prepared by NICE.