Patient and public involvement
In 2008/09 patients, carers and members of the public were involved in a wide range of work with NICE, influencing how we carry out our work, contributing to the development of our guidance and helping us to disseminate and encourage uptake of our guidance. They joined advisory committees and working groups, the Citizens Council and the Partners Council, and made valuable contributions to consultations.
In 2008 NICE made its advisory group meetings open to the public for the first time. NICE has a dedicated Patient and Public Involvement Programme (PPIP), which supports the lay people who work with us. In 2008/09 the PPIP:
- recruited 59 lay people to 22 guideline and programme development groups, where they helped develop clinical guidelines and public health guidance
- ran 8 training days, training a total of 61 lay people in guideline and public health guidance methodology
- recruited 4 new lay people to the Public Health Interventions Advisory Committee and the Technology Appraisals Committees and 3 new lay people to the new Primary Care Quality and Outcomes Framework Indicator Advisory Committee.
This page was last updated: 11 August 2009
