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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was set up in 1998 to end the lottery of post code prescribing. Since then it has hardly been out of the headlines. Matthew Hill investigates how nice is NICE and whether it has made a difference to patient care.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was set up eight years ago and provides guidelines for the NHS in public health and best clinical practice. But it's NICE's decisions about whether new drugs can be prescribed by the NHS that hit the headlines.
Now for the first time the organisation will be subject to a judicial review over their verdict not to recommend drugs for early Alzheimers.
But is NICE, nice or nasty? Matthew Hill looks at whether we need NICE, how it chooses the topics it investigates and what are the long term effects for the NHS. |
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