The final quality assurance step (resolution) to ensure NICE acts fairly, offers consultation responders, who complete a confidentiality form, early site of a pre-publication copy of the final guidance and to the (anonymised) consultation comments. The resolution process is to identify errors or breaches of process before publication and respondents must specify which of these two grounds they are requesting resolution on.
One or more resolution requests were received on this technology. An initial scrutiny meeting will take place on 27 February 2017 to agree if there has been a breach on either grounds (for more information please see section 6 of the programme process guide). The programme's process and methods guides are available on the medical technologies evaluation programme web page.