Here’s a really NICE app
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has created an app to give healthcare professionals “quick and easy” access to its recommendations and guidance.
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NICE asks what to take for a COF
A consultation on potential indicators for the 2013-14 Commissioning Outcomes Framework has been launched.
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Electronic paths through NICE guidance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has launched an online tool that brings together all of its connected guidance in an electronic flowchart.
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Eleven QoF indicators up for retirement
Eleven indicators are likely to be retired from the Quality and Outcomes Framework next year if recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence are implemented. NICE’s QoF Advisory Committee has identified four indicators for retirement in addition to seven indicators due for retirement before change was postponed because of the swine flu […]
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Goals replace targets in DH paper
The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets – and to hold the NHS to account using ‘national outcome goals’.
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QRISK2 gets more support
The heart disease risk score QRISK2 is more accurate at identifying people in the UK at high risk of cardiovascular disease than the Framingham risk equation, newly published research has concluded. Statisticians from Oxford University compared QRISK2 with its predecessor QRISK1 and with the version of Framingham previously recommended by the National Institute for Health […]
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QRISK benefits from NICE decision
Demand for QRISK software has increased following The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s decision to drop its backing for the Framingham score as the tool of choice for cardiovascular risk estimation. The creators of QRISK said that it was experiencing a “marked increase in demand” following the change in the NICE guidance last […]
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Process measures face QoF chop
Four potential new indicators for inclusion in next year’s Quality and Outcomes Framework together with five indicators that could be removed from the QoF have been published. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published its first menu of suggested inclusions and deletions from the QOF since it became responsible for managing […]
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Enquire within
NHS Evidence is a new route to guidance and best practice. Daloni Carlisle reports on the site and the technology behind it.
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Stop the clot
Dr Maureen Baker CBE, clinical director for patient safety at NHS Connecting for Health, talks about developing a risk assessment tool for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE).
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