IntroductIon In the past decades, the introduction of evidence‐based medicine has prompted a paradigm shift in clinical practice. One of the important progress is involving health‐care professionals in making informed decisions according to recommendations from evidence‐based practice guidelines or other guidance documents (e.g., expert consensus statements) published by national and internatio...

A recent editorial claimed that the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on psychosis and schizophrenia, unlike its equivalent 2013 Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline, is biased towards psychosocial treatments and against drug treatments. In this paper we underline that the NICE and SIGN guidelines recommend similar interventions, but...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) routinely publishes details of the evidence and reasoning underpinning its recommendations, including its social value judgements (SVJs). To date, however, NICE's SVJs relating to equity in the distribution of health and health care have been less specific and systematic than those relating to cost-effectiveness in the pursuit of ...

THE INTERPLAY AMONG QUALITY of care, technological innovation, and cost control creates a policy challenge for all health care systems. Improvements in the quality of care can reduce health care costs; for example, better management of chronic conditions may lessen the chance of hospitalization, and new drugs and medical devices might improve the quality and efficiency of care. Often, however, ...

BACKGROUND Publication of national dementia directives, namely the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence/Social Care Institute for Excellence (NICE/SCIE) guidelines (2006) and the National Dementia Strategy (NDS; 2009), has aimed to improve dementia awareness, diagnosis and management in all sectors of the health service. AIM To measure the frequency of cognitive screening ins...

Obesity is a major public health issue and numerous clinical guidelines have been published to support management. One of the most comprehensive guidelines on obesity was published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 2006 (NICE guideline 43) which aims to offer practical recommendations based on the available evidence and has a strong focus on primary care bot...

Each year, about 150 000 people in the UK have a first or recurrent stroke. Despite UK health policies that place a great emphasis on reducing stroke (such as the National Stroke Strategy) and improvements in mortality and morbidity, guidance is needed on access to and provision of effective rehabilitation services to maximise quality of life after stroke. This article summarises the most recen...

EGFR: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor; EGFR M+: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activating Mutation Positive; EMA: European Medicines Agency; ICER: Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio; HTA: Health Technology Assessment; NCPE: National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; NICE: National Institute of Health and Care Excellence; NSCLC: Non Small Cell Lung Cancer; OS: Overall Survival; PEA: Pharmaco-Ec...