November 2007
News
- NICE welcomes new non-executive director to its Board
- NICE welcomes new topic referral
- NICE guidance on bortezomib (Velcade) is a win-win solution for multiple myeloma patients and the NHS
- NICE public health guidance aims to help people change their behaviour so that they can enjoy healthier lives
- See more news
Behind the headlines
New NICE guidance for schools published to prevent and reduce alcohol use in children and young people
NICE has today issued national guidance on effective ways to encourage children not to drink, delaying the age at which young people start drinking and reducing the harm it can cause among those who do drink. The guidance is aimed at anyone who works with children and young people in schools and other education settings.
Get involved
- Intraoperative nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery (interventional procedures consultation)
- Suburethral synthetic sling insertion for stress urinary incontinence in men: interventional procedures consultation
- Diabetes - insulin pump therapy (Appraisal consultation document)
- Mental wellbeing of children in primary education: consultation on an additional effectiveness review
- See all consultations
NICE appraisal of inhaled corticosteroids for the treatment of asthma in children under the age of 12
NICE has today (28 November) published final guidance on the use of inhaled corticosteroids for the treatment of chronic asthma in children under the age of 12. This is part of the Institute's multiple technology appraisal (STA) work programme.
Guidance this month
Clinical guidelines
- None
Technology appraisals
Public health
Interventional procedures
- Grenz rays therapy for inflammatory skin conditions
- Laparoscopic techniques for hysterectomy
- Mini/Micro screw implantation for orthodontic anchorage
- Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation for right ventricular outflow tract dysfunction
- Soft palate implants for obstructive sleep apnoea
- Soft palate implants for simple snoring
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation for severe depression
Events
Come and visit the NICE stand at the following events next month:
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Psychological Therapies in the NHS - Science, Practice, Policy
30 November - 1 December 2007
Savoy Place, London -
NICE 2007 - Evidence into practice
5 - 6 December 2007
Manchester Central Convention Complex - See more events
Coming up next month
NICE expects to issue the following guidance on 12 December 2007:
Clinical guidelines
Technology appraisals
- None
Public health
- None
Public patient safety pilot
- Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Interventions in medicines reconcilliation at the point of admission
Interventional procedures
- Circumferential epithelial radiofrequency ablation for Barrett´s oesophagus
- Endoscopic saphenous vein harvest for coronary artery bypass grafting
- Hybrid procedure for interim management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome in neonates
- Thoracoscopic aortopexy for severe primary tracheomalacia
- Thoracoscopic excision of mediastinal parathyroid tumours
- Thoracoscopically assisted mitral valve surgery
- See all dates for next month
