NICE quality standards: process guide

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Overview

This guide describes the process NICE uses to develop NICE quality standards.  

Last reviewed: 10 December 2025

We updated the process guide to incorporate proportionate approaches to development introduced in July 2024 to enable flexibility and deliver useful and usable outputs. See update information for further details.