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Benefits of implementation

Implementing NICE guidelines offers benefits to patients and carers, healthcare professionals and organisations.

NICE guidance can help patients and carers:

  • Receive care in line with the best available evidence of clinical and cost-effectiveness
  • Empower patients to be accountable for their care, knowing how they will be cared for in a consistent evidence-based approach, thus building patients confidence in NHS services
  • Improve their own health and prevent disease.
  • Help put NICE guidance into practice.

NICE guidance can help healthcare professionals:

  • Ensure care provided is based on the best evidence available
  • Ensure clinicians meet the standards set by regulatory bodies and that they consider NICE guidance when exercising their clinical judgement
  • Enable all staff dealing with patient queries to have confidence in the approaches to care
  • Effectively target resources and efforts at the areas that offer the most significant health improvement.

NICE guidance can help organisations:

  • Meet the Standards for better health (English version; Welsh version)
  • Core standards - technology appraisals and IP
  • Developmental standards - nationally agreed guidance
  • Meet the NHSLA risk management standards and benefit from reduced claims and risk management premiums
  • Enable organisations to meet the requirements in the NHS operating framework for England for 2010/11
  • Benefit from any identified disinvestment opportunities, cost savings or opportunities for re-directing resources
  • Meet government indicators and targets for health improvement and reducing health inequalities.
  • Help local government fulfil its remit to promote the economic and social well-being of its communities.
  • Provide a focus for multi-sector partnership working on health.

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