Costing tools

Costing tools are normally provided for each technology appraisal, clinical guideline and public health guidance. Costing tools are not provided for interventional procedures.

Types of costing tool

NICE provides three types of costing tool:.

• national cost reports summarise the national estimate cost and discuss the assumptions made when estimating the financial impact of implementing the guidance. For technology appraisals, the report is incorporated into the costing template.
• costing templates support estimating the local cost of implementing guidance. and public health guidelines. These templates allow individual NHS organisations and local health economies to quickly assess the impact guidance will have on local budgets.There is now a video tutorial available explaining how to use the costing templates in Windows Media Player and Quick Time format.
• costing statements are used when cost impact is considered to be minimal to explain why the cost impact is not considered to be significant.

All guidance published since January 2005 has costing tools. Costing tools currently available are listed below.

More information on the methodology for developing costing tools.