Power to the People
Paul Hodgkin, the chief executive of Patient Opinion, says the NHS has turned Henry Ford’s old adage into “you can have any treatment you want, as long as it’s NICE” – but the web is making this kind of thinking utterly redundant.
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NICE accredits Direct
NHS Direct’s processes to develop the clinical content of its phone-based patient advice and information service have been accredited by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
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NICE looks for blue-SCIE thinking
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has awarded a contract to the Social Care Institute for Excellence and partners to develop social care guidance.
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Scorecards to show NICE compliance
Clinical commissioning groups will have to produce online “innovation scorecards” to show whether they are offering patients the latest drugs and treatments, under new government plans.
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NICE issues COF and QOF indicators
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has published the first lot of proposed indicators for the Commissioning Outcomes Framework, and a new set of proposed indicators for the 2013-14 Quality and Outcomes Framework.
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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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