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New public health quality standards announced at NICE 2013
In his keynote speech this morning at the NICE annual conference 2013, Lord Howe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality at the Department of Health, announced that NICE, working with experts from Public Health England, will develop new quality standards as part of a public health quality standard programme.
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NICE takes on functions of NHS Technology Adoption Centre
NICE is to play an even greater role in helping the NHS to adopt innovative technologies, such as surgical implants and diagnostic and monitoring devices, which have already demonstrated clear benefits to patients. NHS England has commissioned the Institute to take over the work of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre (NTAC).
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NICE publishes final draft recommendations for a new treatment for enlarged spleen in adults with a rare blood cancer
NICE has published final draft guidance not recommending ruxolitinib (Jakavi, Novartis), for the treatment of disease-related splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) or its symptoms in adults with primary myelofibrosis, or post polycythaemia vera myelofibrosis or post essential thrombocythaemia myelofibrosis.
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Quality and outcomes framework (QOF)
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NHS oversees the development of indicators used to shwo that GPs should be rewarded for providing good quality clinical care and for helping to improve people's health. These indicators are part of the quality and outcomes framework (QOF), a voluntary incentive scheme for GP practices in the UK.
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Quality standards
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NHS is developing and defining the standards of healthcare that people can expect to receive. These standards will indicate when a clinical treatment (or set of clinical procedures) is considered highly effective, cost effective and safe as well as being viewed as a positive experience by patients.
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