03 Mar 2011
| by Chris Lancelot
NICE is currently recruiting clinical members, including GPs, for its four advisory appraisal...compensation. Nor should NICE be hoping that retired doctors will apply: clinicians on a high-powered committee ...
, NICE isn't an isolated case. Many national NHS committees have no mechanism for paying their members ...
16 May 2012
would mean funding decisions by bodies, such as NICE, would have to be made within 120 days for new drugs ( GP , 11 April ). As we reveal today, this may be a problem for NICE because just 23% of single ...
the GPC and Cancer Research UK warned that imposing strict deadlines on NICE's decisions could force ...
NHS patients wait more than five years to receive new medicines because NICE misses its own...The Office for Health Economics found that NICE missed its 301-day target for individual medicines in 77% of cases in the past decade. NICE also breached a 420-day target for multiple drugs in 81% of its appraisals. Appeals and legal challenges outside of NICE's control added to the delays ...
01 Dec 2011
| by Mary Selby
Sea, and reflecting on how nice GPs always are, wherever you go. We could out-nice a nun. Even a nice...an edifice of marble and glass.
'That's nice,' I say magnanimously, for owning such a wing I can afford ...
with their own petard.
The moral is, you can't out-nice a GP. Not even here.
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22 Sep 2011
| by Mary Selby
challenging, leaving only option three - being really nice.
Of course, I am always nice, but there are levels of nice: level one involves listening politely while Mrs Bones asks for a mental health referral ...
16 Jun 2011
NICE proposes five changes to the 2012/13 QOF indicators targeting smokers and inactive patients...Click here to read the full details of NICE's proposed changes to the QOF
Click here to read the full story: GPs face public health challenge in 2012/13 QOF
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really nice satisfied-patient-thank-you note. He had one already prepared.
25 Nov 2011
This week we reveal that GPs have been barred from prescribing certain NICE-approved drugs because...NICE is not always popular, but this is because it makes difficult decisions about what can ...
such decisions are not left to local managers.
However, time and again PCTs choose to ignore NICE ...
' abilities to provide their patients with the best quality care. If something is recommended by NICE ...
26 May 2011
up-to-date information on all forms of tobacco use, despite NICE requiring it.
Smokeless tobacco ...
restricts GPs' choice between the three NICE-approved cessation drugs - NRT, varenicline and bupropion - as equal first-line treatments.
NICE advises that clinicians and patients must be allowed to choose ...
25 Jan 2012
| by Stephen Robinson
care.
This rise coincided with new NICE guidelines in April 2011, calling on GPs to test women ...
they should test patients with very vague symptoms, he said, which would be 'flying in the face of what NICE ...
of NICE's first-line ovarian cancer test.
Ultrasound services are stretched and could be overwhelmed ...