The NICE audience encoding scheme covers the category of user for whom the resource is intended.
Audience |
Description |
|---|---|
Academic |
Universities, academic institutions, researchers |
General public |
Members of the general public |
Healthcare industry |
Pharmaceutical companies and other private health organisations which are not NHS |
Health professionals |
NHS professionals, other professionals that are not academic such as dentists, nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, surgeons. |
NHS organisations |
Primary care trust, arms length bodies etc. |
Patients and carers |
Individuals and their carers. |
Patient and carer organisations |
Patient and carer organisations such as Age Concern, Macmillan Cancer Relief, Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust etc. |
Press and Media |
Members of the press and media. |