Medicines and prescribing
Support for delivering quality, safety and efficiency in the optimisation of medicines.
Treatment option summaries
Visual representations that bring together NICE technology appraisal guidance and NICE guideline recommendations in a structured and user-friendly way.
They aim to guide decision making where there are multiple medicines options in a clinical topic area.
Our treatment option summaries: interim process guide lists our current treatment option summaries and sets out how we select topics and prepare the summaries.
Medicines and prescribing associates
We train and support clinicians involved in medicines optimisation across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Our associates share information across their professional networks and support each other as an expert group.
Find out more about our medicines and prescribing associates.
NICE guidelines
We produce recommendations promoting good practice for people involved in governing, commissioning, prescribing and making decisions about medicines. They are suitable for a wide range of audiences across health and social care.
View NICE guidelines.
Evidence summaries
Summaries of the best available evidence to guide decision making for selected medicines. They:
help commissioners, budget holders and groups make informed decisions on the introduction of key new medicines
review the clinical evidence for the effectiveness of medicines
can include reviews of a single medicine with 1 or more indications or class reviews of medicines on specific topics.
View our evidence summaries.
Our evidence summaries: interim process guide sets out how we select topics and prepare the summaries.