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Gain insights into NICE's guideline development process, ways to stay informed, and how stakeholders can get involved. Learn about scoping, committees, surveillance, and updating guidelines to ensure relevance. Stay updated with new evidence and contribute to shaping healthcare practice.
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Cochrane and NICE Guidelines: A view from NICE Dr Nichole Taske Centre for Clinical Practice, NICE
To cover • An outline of the NICE guideline development process; • How to find out about guidelines in development; • How to get involved/register interest in a particular guideline.
NICE clinical guideline programme • The largest publicly-funded national guidelines programme in the world • 233 guidelines published since 2002(172 new topics, 47 updates and 14 standing committee updates) • Involving over 1000 people (most on a voluntary basis) • Includes areas of public health, social care and service delivery.
Guideline Development Process Topic referral Scoping Development ~2 years Consultation Surveillance and Update Validation Publication
2. How to get involved/register interest in a guideline: - Stakeholder; - Committee member; - Guideline development; - Guideline surveillance
The scoping process • The scoping process comprises: • A pre-consultation stakeholder workshop • A 4 week consultation period with stakeholders See Chapter 2 of ‘Developing NICE Guidelines: The Manual’ http://www.nice.org.uk/article/pmg20/chapter/2-the-scope
NICE Guideline Committees • Clinicians • Researchers • Service managers • Health economists • Patients/carers
Guideline development • Ensure reviews relevant to the NHS are up-to-date • Work alongside guideline developers to provide updated Cochrane reviews; • Challenges: • Aligning timelines; • Ensuring review questions (PICO) are compatible • Stakeholder consultation on draft guideline
Updating our guidelinesKeeping up to date with new evidence Maintaining the catalogue of 233 published guidelines: • Surveillance reviews • Ability to update discrete areas of guideline
Surveillance process • Guidelines are reviewed every 2 years post-publication; • Process encompasses: • Literature review; • Topic-specific strategies (CRG liaison) • e.g. Dementia; NE; Eczema • Intelligence gathering • Stakeholder consultation (‘no to update’ decisions at 4 & 8 years only);
Thank you. Nichole.Taske@nice.org.uk