7 Links with other NICE programmes
7.1 Guidance development programmes
The Quality Standards Programme works with all NICE guidance development programmes, including internal and external guidance developers, to ensure that guidance recommendations can be used to form the basis of quality statements by being clear, specific, sufficiently detailed and measurable.
7.2 NICE indicator programme
NICE is responsible for a programme of work to develop quality indicators for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) for primary care and the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCG OIS) from NICE guidelines and quality standards and NICE-accredited guidance.