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  • Question on Consultation

    Is the draft scope clear in terms of its aims, boundaries, and the populations and settings it covers? From your perspective, will the guideline based on this scope be useful to your work or the services you provide?

  • Question on Consultation

    The draft scope focuses on health and mental health settings and joint work with social care but does not include interventions delivered solely by social care. Considering the remit of NICE and this guideline, from your perspective, does this approach raise any concerns that we should be aware of?

  • Question on Consultation

    Considering the remit of the NICE guideline update, does the draft EHIA consider the range of barriers faced by minoritised and underserved groups?

  • Question on Consultation

    Are there any additional equality or health inequalities issues we should consider?

Scope for guideline update (starting 2026)

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Draft review questions

We have developed the following draft review questions. These may change during guideline development, but the areas covered will remain as listed in the final scope.

The areas covered and draft questions will be used to develop more detailed review protocols.

We will not be reviewing the evidence on the following:

  • general principles of care covered in NICE foundational guidelines 

  • recommendations on good practice or general principles of care that are not linked to review questions or evidence 

  • training or competency in areas that are the responsibility of professional bodies or professional health and care regulators.

Prevention

  • What is the effectiveness of interventions and approaches (to be specified in the review protocol) for preventing domestic abuse where there are risk factors for abuse?

Identification and disclosure

  • What is the effectiveness of interventions and approaches (to be specified in the review protocol) for identifying domestic abuse, including support for disclosure?

  • What factors influence identification and disclosure of domestic abuse to health and care professionals?

Interventions and approaches

  • What is the effectiveness of interventions and approaches (to be specified in the review protocol) for people with direct experience of domestic abuse, as victims, defined in this scope 

  • What is the effectiveness of interventions and approaches (to be specified in the review protocol) for babies, children and young people aged under 18 years who see, hear or experience the effect of domestic abuse?

  • What is the effectiveness of interventions and approaches (to be specified in the review protocol) for people perpetrating domestic abuse, including preventing re-offending?

  • What factors influence access to interventions and approaches for people experiencing, exposed to or perpetrating domestic abuse?