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Guide to the processes of technology appraisal
Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment (NG195)
This guideline covers preventing bacterial infection in healthy babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age, treating pregnant women whose unborn baby is at risk of infection, and caring for babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age with a suspected or confirmed bacterial infection. It aims to reduce delays in recognising and treating infection and prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics. The guideline does not cover viral infections.
Medical technologies evaluation programme process guide (PMG34)
Medical technologies evaluation programme process guide
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 The medical technologies evaluation programme
- 3 Who is involved in the medical technologies evaluation programme
- 4 Identifying, selecting and routing technologies for evaluation
- 5 How medical technologies guidance is developed
- 6 Resolution
- 7 Publishing medical technologies guidance
- 8 Reviews
Mannitol dry powder for inhalation for treating cystic fibrosis (TA266)
Evidence-based recommendations on mannitol dry powder for inhalation (Bronchitol) for treating cystic fibrosis (CF)
Methods for the development of NICE public health guidance (third edition) (PMG4)
Methods for the development of NICE public health guidance (third edition)
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Topic selection and scoping the guidance
- 3 Determining the evidence for review and consideration
- 4 Identifying the evidence
- 5 Reviewing the scientific evidence
- 6 Incorporating health economics
- 7 Developing recommendations
- Appendix A Conceptual framework for the work of the Centre for Public Health Excellence (CPHE)
Interventional procedures programme manual
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on microINR for anticoagulation therapy .
Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (NG209)
This guideline covers support to stop smoking for everyone aged 12 and over, and help to reduce people's harm from smoking if they are not ready to stop in one go . It also covers ways to prevent children, young people and young adults aged 24 and under from taking up smoking. The guideline brings together and updates all NICE's previous guidelines on using tobacco, including smokeless tobacco . It covers nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes to help people stop smoking or reduce their harm from smoking. It does not cover using tobacco products such as ‘heat not burn’ tobacco.
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Sections for NG209
- Overview
- Recommendations on preventing uptake
- Recommendations on promoting quitting
- Recommendations on treating tobacco dependence
- Recommendations on treating tobacco dependence in pregnant women
- Recommendations on policy, commissioning and training
- Terms used in this guideline
- Recommendations for research
This guideline covers safe midwifery staffing in all maternity settings, including at home, in the community, in day assessment units, in obstetric units, and in units led by midwives (both alongside hospitals and free-standing). It aims to improve maternity care by giving advice on monitoring staffing levels and actions to take if there are not enough midwives to meet the needs of women and babies in the service.
Quality standards: process guide
This guide describes the methods and processes, including expected timescales, that NICE follows when carrying out health technology evaluations. The methods and processes are designed to produce robust guidance for the NHS in an open, transparent and timely way, with appropriate contribution from stakeholders. Organisations invited to contribute to health technology evaluation development should read this manual in conjunction with the NICE health technology evaluation topic selection: the manual. All documents are available on the NICE website.
NICE's support for rebuilding capacity in non-COVID health services
Director of our Centre for Guidelines, Paul Chrisp, discusses how NICE can help the NHS and wider care sector restore services most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
Care for people with learning disabilities should be close to home wherever possible, says NICE
NICE is urging councils and health bodies to make sure that people with learning disabilities can access well-designed services and staff with the right skills so they do not need to move away for care or treatment.
The Department of Health has launched a 12 week consultation to gather views on the topics for NICE's new quality standards and guidance for social care.
Hundreds of children with type 2 diabetes to be offered choice of two life changing technologies
Hundreds of children with type 2 diabetes who currently manage their condition with the ‘burdensome’, ‘tiring’, and ‘stressful’ task of finger prick testing several times a day could be offered a choice between two ‘life changing’ technologies to virtually automate the process, NICE has said.