NICE's decision to scrap 'quick reference guides' that summarise its guidance has sparked concern...backed NICE over its decision, saying GPs 'will be able to adapt'.
GP locum Dr Louise Cockram said ...
clinical guideline, including recent updates. NICE halted production of these and clinical knowledge summaries last year.
Instead, GPs must now choose between the new NICE Pathways website, which presents ...
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 ...
NICE has urged GPs to take a more rigorous approach to managing peripheral arterial disease (PAD...,200 on average.
Draft NICE guidance suggests further changes to imp rove care for the 20% of people aged over ...
21 Mar 2012
| by Dr Klaus Witte
A clinical review of the diagnosis and management of hypertension, according to the latest NICE...function.
NICE guidelines have focused on ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). 5 Patients with a clinic BP ...
/95mmHg.
Recent changes to guidelines The latest NICE guidelines aim to improve the accuracy ...
benefit but was associated with more side-effects.
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NICE. The clinical management ...
20 Apr 2012
| by Tom Moberly
GP workload, research by a member of the NICE QOF team suggests....A study led by Dr Nicholas Steel, who sits on the NICE QOF advisory team, found that pay for QOF targets bears no relation to the gains that result from achieving them . But the GPC defended the framework, arguing that the entire GP contract was workload-based.
The researchers compared financial ...
people, increasing the risk of CHD by 50% in men and 30% in women. NICE recommends cascade testing ...
: There s no money to fund NICE recommendations. PCTs have had four years to get their act together and they just ...
NICE s FH guidance more than two years after it was published. More than a third do not fund lipid ...
01 Mar 2012
| by Dr Paula Hensler, Editor, MIMS Dermatology
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Recent NICE 2 and DH 3 guidance on managing skin cancer has triggered ...
-71. 2. NICE. Guidance on Cancer Services. Improving Outcomes for People with Skin Tumours including Melanoma (update): The Management of Low-risk Basal Cell Carcinomas in the Community . London, NICE, May ...
are yet to be released.
Speaking at a Westminster Health Forum event on the future role of NICE ...
a climate of tightening finances.
The NHS, through NICE, must ensure all claims are subjected ...
group on medical research, said achieving the 20bn Nicholson challenge savings while implementing NICE ...
21 Mar 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
should have an abdominal examination performed, including a digital rectal examination. NICE recommends ...
reversible causes of LUTS should be determined (for example, use of diuretics).
NICE guidance also ...
, unless renal impairment is suspected.
NICE recommends that PSA testing should only be offered to men ...