Appendix F: Suggested sources for scoping

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**Suggested sources for scoping**
Type of information	Source
NICE guidance and products	NICE website – published and in development
Other guidance and standards	Trip database Clinical knowledge summaries Websites of national organisations, including devolved nations (for example, NHS England, Public Health England, Social Care Institute for Excellence [SCIE], Public Health Wales, NHS Scotland, Public Health Agency -NI) Royal college/professional body websites Charity, and other community and voluntary sector websites (including equality organisations, for example, Race Equality Foundation's Better Health briefings) Patient and service user organisation websites (NICE's people and communities team can advise further)
Guidelines, reviews and economic evaluations	Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) Epistemonikos Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) The Campbell Collaboration Health Technology Wales International HTA Database Guidelines International Network Health Evidence National Institute for Health Research's Health Technology Assessment Programme Prospero Database of promoting health effectiveness reviews (DoPHER) ECRI Guidelines Trust Bibliographic databases (where required)
Policy and legislation	Government and other policy websites, including devolved nations (for example, legislation.gov.uk, Department of Health, Scottish Government, Welsh Government) Regulatory authority websites (for example, General Dental Council, General Medical Council)
Datasets, audits, surveys, registries	Adult Inpatient Survey Care Quality Commission Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Community mental health survey Data.gov English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) GP Patient Survey Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) Gateway Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) directory Health Survey for England Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) National Audit Office National Cancer Data Repository (NCDR) National Cancer Patient Experience Survey Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) NHS Digital Data Collections NHS Improvement Nuffield Trust PHE Public Health Profiles Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health (POMH) Primary Care Mortality Database QResearch Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database Bibliographic databases (where required)
Information on the experiences of patients, service users and carers, or the target population	Websites/databases of people's experiences of health and social care (for example, Healthtalk.org, Patient Voices Healthwatch, The Patient Experience Library, National Voices) Patient and service user organisation websites (NICE's PIP can advise further) Bibliographic databases (where required)
Statistics	Faculty of Public Health NHS Digital A–Z NHS Digital Official and National Statistics Publications UK Data Service Office for National Statistics Disease-specific statistics, for example, CancerStats

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