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    Do you agree NICE should focus on guidance production and maintenance on priority areas (section 5) and these should be reviewed periodically to ensure NICE is supporting what the health and care system needs? If you disagree, please give reason and rationale.

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    Do you agree that NICE should be transparent about its remit (section 3.12, section 6.1.1 and 6.2)? If you disagree, please give reason and rationale.

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    Do you think the new process and consideration factors for NICE to propose topics to the Secretary of State for NHAP are robust and transparent (section 4 and Annex A)? If you disagree, please give reason and rationale. Are there any other factors NICE should include to consider?

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    Do you think the new merged single-stage prioritisation framework is more streamlined and efficient for topic selection? If you disagree, please give reason and rationale.

NICE-wide topic prioritisation: the manual

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5 Identifying priorities for the health and care system

NICE identifies priority areas of the health and care system through various national and government policies, and NHS partner programmes. These priority areas will be reviewed annually.

5.1 New topics

New topics that meet the priority areas of the health and care system are identified from a range of sources, including:

5.2 Updates of existing NICE guidance

Updates that meet the priority areas of the health and care system are identified by NICE-wide surveillance activities. This includes horizon scanning, evidence monitoring, and suggestions from internal and external sources, for example, notifications from committee members, topic experts, health and care staff and the public through contacting NICE and suggestions through NICE's webpage on topic suggestion. All potential update topics will go through the NICE-wide surveillance process for a decision on whether to proceed to the NICE prioritisation board for consideration. For NICE-wide surveillance methods and process, see processes and methods for NICE-wide guidance surveillance.

For guidelines, small and medium updates from topic suites will not be considered by the NICE prioritisation board, and instead a decision will be made by the Centre for Guidelines' (CfG) Guidelines Oversight and Delivery Group.