Endometrial ablation service
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an appropriate endometrial ablation service.
This commissioning guide should be read in conjunction with the following NICE guidance:
- NICE clinical guideline CG44 ‘Heavy menstrual bleeding’
- NICE clinical guideline CG30 ‘Long-acting reversible contraception’
- NICE technology appraisal TA78 ‘Fluid-filled thermal balloon and microwave endometrial ablation techniques for heavy menstrual bleeding’.
The clinical guidelines cover clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpin the content of this guide.
Those involved in the commissioning of services for endometrial ablation should also read the commissioning guides on intrauterine devices and the intrauterine system (to be published January 2008) and hysterectomy service.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning an endometrial ablation service
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
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- Endometrial ablation service
- Commissioning an endometrial ablation service
- Specifying an endometrial ablation service
- Determining local service levels for an endometrial ablation service
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance