Guidance
About this guidance
NICE interventional procedures guidance makes recommendations on the safety and efficacy of the procedure. It does not cover whether or not the NHS should fund a procedure. Funding decisions are taken by local NHS bodies after considering the clinical effectiveness of the procedure and whether it represents value for money for the NHS.
This guidance was developed using the NICE interventional procedures guidance process.
Changes since first publication
This guidance replaces interventional procedure guidance 447 (published March 2013). IPG447 was reconsidered by the Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee after an internal procedural error was identified. As a result of this changes were made to sections 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 of the guidance and NICE consulted again on the revised document.
The changes made to the recommendations were:
1.1: References to patient selection and special arrangements for research were removed and a recommendation to submit data to a register added.
1.3: The following text was added: 'Patient selection is particularly important because the cure rates for established treatments in accessible sites are very high.'
1.5: The following text was added: 'Entry into research trials should also be considered, with a view to providing data about cure and about recurrence rates, compared with other forms of treatment.'
Some minor changes were also made to the rest of the document after consultation.
We have produced a summary of this guidance for patients and carers.
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Your responsibility
This guidance represents the views of NICE and was arrived at after careful consideration of the available evidence. Healthcare professionals are expected to take it fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. This guidance does not, however, override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make appropriate decisions in the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer.
Implementation of this guidance is the responsibility of local commissioners and/or providers. Commissioners and providers are reminded that it is their responsibility to implement the guidance, in their local context, in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations. Nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
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