NICE is planning to forge new links with GP consortia, its chief executive Sir Andrew Dillon tells...taken by NICE, the institute's chief executive says.
In an exclusive interview with GP, Sir Andrew Dillon says NICE will continue to assess drugs' clinical and cost effectiveness and offer advice ...
.
The commissioning outcomes framework will be derived from a rigorous assessment of evidence, he says. 'NICE can ...
18 May 2011
Producing all 150 NICE quality standards in time for them to be used to determine consortia...NICE's quality standards seek to define the gold standard of care for a range of conditions ...
will be measured.
So far, NICE has only produced eight standards and just 31 more are due over the next two to three years.
Dr Fergus Macbeth, director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at NICE, told attendees ...
27 Jan 2011
| by Dr Rubin Minhas
Dr Rubin Minhas says that value-based drug pricing and a changed role for NICE will thaw relations...between GPs and NICE.
At best, the relationship has been chilly. Neither side has made particular ...
to the vital role that NICE has played over the past decade.
Collective epiphany In fact, there seems ...
much they owe to NICE. For those like myself who have been undertaking appraisals for NICE during ...
outcomes that will decide whether consortia earn a quality premium, NICE has warned....Concern about the proposed bonus for successful consortia is set out in NICE's response ...
's outcomes', the institute said.
NICE warned the premium needed careful planning and piloting and called ...
wider geographical area.
NICE said more clarity is needed on the roles of consortia and the NHS ...
NICE has quietly scrapped its system for proposing new QOF indicators, in a change GPs fear could.... NICE plans to write 150 standards in total, but just 12 are finished with 16 more in development ...
as possible and I would be extremely concerned if the processes that NICE was putting in place made this more ...
advances.'
A NICE spokeswoman pointed out that its quality standards were subject to public consultation. ...
and primary prevention indicators from 2013.
But at a NICE meeting to decide indicators for 2013/14 last ...
, members of NICE's QOF review committee discussed indicators for inclusion in the 2013/14 QOF.
They said that the public health proposals had yet to be presented to NICE.
The committee also pointed out that QOF ...
by a NICE technology appraisal, PCTs are allowed to decide not to fund particular therapies ...
beyond those set by NICE.
'PCTs are putting barriers in the way of NICE guidance,' he says. 'Patients have the NHS Constitution and NICE guidance to fall back on. But it is a major problem.'
Fertility ...
17 Mar 2011
| by Stephen Robinson
in line with NICE advice.
The deal, which takes effect from 1 April, includes many changes held over ...
-defined following NICE advice.
GPC deputy chairman Dr Richard Vautrey said: 'The new indicators ...
09 Dec 2010
| by Mary Selby
, like deviate from NICE guidance or bid to run a failing hospital.
'On the third day of Christmas ...
in the health service is not all good. Just then Santa arrived in a really NICE sleigh drawn by a team ...
the profession being made responsible for rationing treatment, as well as plans to scale back NICE's role, Dr ...