RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What's happening at NICE?
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 13
OP 18
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.13-1-13
VO 13
IS 1
A1 Michael D Rawlins
A1 Andrew Dillon
A1 Gillian Leng
YR 2013
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/13/1/13.abstract
AB From 1 April 2013, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will be re-established under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Although its name will change to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, its acronym — NICE —has been written into the face of the Act. The new NICE will continue to provide the full range of guidance and other products with which the Institute has become associated. It will, though, have enhanced responsibilities in the development of quality standards and in the introduction of value-based pricing. In addition, it will be responsible for producing guidance for social care (hence the change in its name) and associated quality standards. The changes to the structure of NICE will not change its relationship with the professions and we are confident that it will continue to be relevant to all those working in the National Health Service.