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'How to' guides

One of the key objectives within the NICE Implementation Strategy is to provide practical generic implementation tools to support the implementation of NICE guidance into practice.

One of the ways we aim to achieve this objective is to develop a series of ‘how to’ guides to aid implementing NICE guidance at a local level.

The guide How to put NICE guidance into practice is the cornerstone of the Institute’s implementation support programme. It provides an implementation model to help NHS organisations comply with the Department of Health’s ‘Standards for better health’ and meet the expectations of the Healthcare Commission.

In 2007, we launched the guide How to change practice: understand, identify and overcome the barriers to change which aims to improve patient care by providing practical advice on how to encourage healthcare professionals and managers to change practice in line with the latest guidance.

In 2008, we developed How to put NICE guidance into practice and improve the health and wellbeing of communities: practical steps for local authorities This guide is for chief executives, their senior officers and others within local authorities who lead on different aspects of health and wellbeing.

In November 2009 we published 'How to use NICE guidance to commission high quality services'. This guide supports commissioners in developing systems and processes that embed NICE guidance into commissioning. It explains how NICE guidance can support the commissioning of new services, the evaluation or redesign of existing services, and the decommissioning of ineffective interventions. It also describes how commissioners can use our guidance throughout the commissioning cycle and in achieving world class commissioning competencies.

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