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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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9 NICE prioritisation board

The NICE prioritisation board has a decision-making role that drives forward NICE's strategic ambition to focus on what matters most and ensure that areas of greatest impact to the system are prioritised for guidance delivery.

The NICE prioritisation board:

  • reviews and discusses topic briefs to decide which of these should be prioritised for guidance delivery, including routing decisions on technology appraisal guidance, highly specialised technologies guidance, HealthTech guidance ('early use', 'routine use', 'existing use' and interventional procedures) or proposals to the Secretary of State for HealthTech guidance using NICE's technology appraisal process

  • maintains an annual review of priority areas and a 'rolling plan' that it reviews and adjusts regularly, in response to changes in system need and demand

  • shares its decisions with NICE's guidance executive and publishes these on the NICE website to ensure visibility and transparency, and to enable effective sharing of information with our stakeholders.

We share all topic briefs with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England (NHSE) before each prioritisation board meeting. Feedback from the DHSC and NHSE, if any, will be considered by the NICE prioritisation board as part of their decision making, but the NICE prioritisation board is independent of the DHSC and NHSE, and these bodies are not represented on the board itself.

NICE prioritisation board members reflect a collective view of their teams and directorates, not their personal view. Outputs from the internal horizon scanning and system intelligence functions will feed into the NICE prioritisation board and produce regular reports to support prioritisation and the review of priority areas.