Our guidelines can help you make decisions around prescribing medicines, what treatments to recommend and the promotion of safeguarding.
About NICE guidelines
NICE guidelines are evidence-based recommendations for health and care in England and Wales.
They help health and social care professionals to prevent ill health, promote good health and improve the quality of care and services.
Our guidelines support shared decision making between healthcare professionals and people receiving care and treatment.
We work with health and care professionals, people who use services and carers to draft our recommendations. Find out how we choose our topics, draft and publish our guidelines.
Prioritising our guidance topics
For 2025 to 2026 we're prioritising the update and maintenance of our guidelines across 4 key topic areas: cancer, cardiometabolic disease, mental health and women’s and reproductive health.
Blogs
NICE's deputy chief executive, Jonathan Benger, talks about our new approach to prioritisation.
How NICE is ensuring its topic prioritisation decisions are grounded in lived experience
Simon Denegri discusses NICE's commitment to involving the public voice in its work and decisions.
NICE’s prioritisation process explained – what healthtech developers need to know
Understand why we're prioritising key topic areas for evaluation and what it means for innovators.
