Clinical guidelines in Turkey
The Turkish government has invested significant resources in a pay-for-performance scheme and in developing quality standards to improve health services for its population.
In 2008 Turkey asked NICE International to help develop this work further and assist in implementing the structures, processes and capacity to produce clinical guidelines for best practice. These will include measures of quality that could be used in pay-for-performance schemes that reward healthcare providers and in monitoring the quality of the services offered.
"This will be run as a hands-on pilot for us and for the Turkish government," said Kalipso Chalkidou, who leads NICE International. "Our Turkish colleagues will pick a high-burden disease area and develop a guideline adapting the NICE evidence base to the local setting. They will be doing the developing and we will be doing the assisting. The idea is to build capacity to ensure this is a sustainable process in Turkey in the long run."
Work is now well under way on this 10-month project, which is being funded through the World Bank. In March 2009 NICE International brought together a team of experts from NICE, the national collaborating centres and academics from the USA or their first mission to Ankara to meet with their Turkish counterparts.
This page was last updated: 11 August 2009
