The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is producing early value assessment guidance on ‘Point of care tests for urinary tract infections to improve antimicrobial prescribing’.
Early value assessment (EVA) guidance rapidly provides recommendations on promising health technologies that have the potential to address national unmet need. NICE has assessed early evidence on these technologies to determine if earlier patient and system access in the NHS is appropriate while further evidence is generated.
The diagnostics advisory committee has considered the evidence and the views of clinical and patient experts. This topic is one of the first pilots using the new EVA approach.
You can now comment on the early value draft guidance.
It summarises the evidence and views that have been considered, and sets out the recommendations made by the committee. NICE invites comments from registered stakeholders, healthcare professionals and the public.
How to comment
You should read both the consultation document and the accompanying evidence (see the committee papers) before making any comments.
You must make your comments directly onto the online version of the consultation document. When you go into the document you will find instructions on how to use the new commenting software. You can also review and edit your comments before you submit them.
You can download a PDF version of the consultation document, but you can only make comments on the online version.
Consultation documents
- Diagnostics consultation document (Online commenting)
- Diagnostics consultation document (PDF)
- Committee papers
Closing date for comments: 30 March 2023 at 17:00
About the consultation
The advisory committee is interested in receiving comments on the following:
- Has all of the relevant evidence been taken into account?
- Are the summaries of clinical and cost effectiveness reasonable interpretations of the evidence?
- Are the recommendations sound, and a suitable basis for early value guidance to the NHS?
Equality issues
NICE is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination and fostering good relations between people with particular protected characteristics and others. Please let us know if you think that the recommendations may need changing to meet these aims. In particular, please tell us if the recommendations:
- could have a different effect on people protected by the equality legislation than on the wider population, for example by making it more difficult in practice for a specific group to access the technology
- could have any adverse effect on people with a particular disability or disabilities.
Please provide any relevant information or data you have about such effects and how they could be avoided or reduced.
Note that this document is not NICE's final guidance on point of care tests for urinary tract infections. The recommendations in section 1 may change after consultation.
After consultation, NICE will consider the comments received. The final recommendations will be the basis for NICE’s early value guidance on using the technology with evidence generation.
For further details, see https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg39/chapter/introduction
If you have any problems, please contact diagnostics@nice.org.uk
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