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NICE Guidelines

NICE is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. On 1 April 2005 NICE joined with the Health Development Agency to become the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (also to be known as NICE). The following are surgically relevant guidelines that have been issued by NICE

Interventional Guidance Procedures

NICE guidance tells you about the safety of interventional procedures used for diagnosis or treatment and says whether they work well enough for routine use (or whether special arrangements are needed for patient consent). The aim of NICE's interventional procedures guidance is to protect patients’ safety and to support people in the NHS in the process of introducing new procedures. Many of the procedures that NICE investigates are new, but we also look at more established procedures if there is uncertainty about their safety or how well they work. To develop NICE interventional procedures guidance, NICE reviews evidence and collects and analyses information. By providing guidance on how safe procedures are and how well they work, NICE makes it possible for new treatments and tests to be introduced into the NHS in a responsible way.

 

 

 
 

Last updated: 05 January 2008

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