NICE quality standards: setting standards for high-quality care

NICE quality standards: improving healthcare quality in the English NHS?

The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is best known in primary care for its production since 2001 of evidence-based clinical guidelines covering a wide range of clinical conditions. 1 More recently, NICE guidelines have become further integrated into UK primary care through their development into performance measures for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payme...

Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

Quality Standards for Diabetes Care Toolkit

 All people with type 1 diabetes should be provided with multidisciplinary support from the time of diagnosis onwards.  Type 1 diabetes should be provided with multidisciplinary support from the time of diagnosis onwards.  The multidisciplinary team should ideally be co-located and must include expertise and experience in insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring.  The multidisciplina...

Setting Standards for Glaucoma Care

Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidelines on the diagnosis and management of open-angle glaucoma in 2009 (www.nice.org.uk/CG85). These are intended to set standards for practice in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) As these guidelines are the only strictly evidence-based glaucoma guidelines available, however, they are a resource that can be accessed and used globally. To produce evi...