19 Sep 2007
According to Spike Milligan, his dad used to tell him a story about World War One.
01 Feb 2008
Infliximab has been added to the list of recommended treatments for adult psoriasis by NICE....appraisal, NICE also says patients need to have a failed response to standard therapies in order to qualify ...
. The immunomodulators efalizumab and etanercept are already recommended by NICE for use in the treatment of severe plaque psoriasis. On average, the annual cost of infliximab is 11,750 per patient. NICE infliximab ...
11 Apr 2008
NICE has reversed its decision to recommend alendronate as the only treatment option...A draft appraisal document issued this week by NICE recommends second-line use of risedronate ...
NICE s guidance in June to only prescribe alendronate, GPs are being forced by PCTs to prescribe ...
October 2007). The U-turn by NICE is dependent on a patients T-scores. sanjay ...
20 Aug 2010
| by Stephen Robinson and Tom Moberly
NICE has unveiled nine best practice standards on which GPs will have to base commissioning...and to determine levels of pay.
Click here for the full details of NICE's best practice standards
The White Paper Liberating the NHS said all NHS commissioning would have to be based on NICE quality standards ...
standards had been produced.
NICE has now revealed the next nine topics, giving a far clearer view ...
14 Dec 2007
GPs should use stepped-care plans to improve control of atopic eczema in children, says NICE....In a guideline published this week, NICE recommends a stepped approach to treatment, with GPs ...
one in five children in the UK suffer from the condition. NICE recommended widespread use ...
. Potency of corticosteroids needs to be tailored to severity and location of eczema, says NICE. rachel ...
19 Jun 2009
NICE has announced it will not change draft Alzheimer's guidance restricting the use...NICE was forced to release details of the economic model it used to
assess the drugs in November ...
Alzheimer's. NICE's guidance on donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine and memantine
remains unchanged. NICE chief executive Andrew Dillon said: 'NICE was not asked by the
Court of Appeal to carry out a new ...
under draft guidance from NICE....be an option if they are at increased risk of fractures, said the draft NICE guidance.
NICE's appraisal ...
Carole Longson, NICE's health technology evaluation centre director, said: 'We hope that older women ...
31 Oct 2008
NICE guidance recommends....In guidelines on interventions to promote older people's mental well-being , NICE says health professionals working with older people should provide health advice and information on the benefits of walking ...
or improve their health and well-being. In separate guidance, NICE has recommended spinal cord manipulation ...
24 Feb 2006
| by Tom Simonite
Draft joint hypertension guidelines from NICE and the British Hypertension Society (BHS) have...by previous conflicting NICE and BHS guidance. The draft largely backs existing BHS recommendations but makes ...
that having guidelines supported by NICE and BHS would make things clearer for GPs but he added that trials ...
director for guidelines methodology at NICE, said: Most of the evidence did come from atenolol trials ...
25 Jan 2008
NICE has issued six web-based commissioning guides to help GPs effectively commission evidence....tanday@haymarket.com - NICE commissioning guides 2008, live links at healthcarerepublic.com. ...