Providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health

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NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.

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Using guidance

NICE helps health professionals implement our guidance by providing tools such as cost templates, audit criteria and slide sets.

• Benefits of implementation

• NICE implementation programme

• Commissioning guides – supporting clinical service redesign

• Implementation tools

• Tracking guidance implementation

• Help implement NICE guidance

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Current consultations

Comment on draft NICE guidance

• Implantation of accommodating intraocular lenses during cataract surgery (interventional procedures consultation)

• Injectable bulking agents for faecal incontinence (interventional procedures consultation)

• Laparoscopic insertion of peritoneal dialysis catheter (interventional procedures consultation)

• Radiofrequency-assisted liver resection (interventional procedures consultation)

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Patient and public involvement

Find out how NICE involves patients and the public in its work

Latest guidance

• Familial breast cancer

• Urinary incontinence

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Latest news

• NICE issues update on familial breast cancer guideline to incorporate new evidence

  25 Oct 2006

• New NICE guidelines launched to improve treatment and care for millions of women suffering in silence

  25 Oct 2006

• The Institute has arranged a hearing for one appeal received against the Final Appraisal Determination and Guidance on bevacizumab and cetuximab for metastatic colorectal cancer.

  24 Oct 2006

• NICE appraisal of bortezomib for the treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma

  20 Oct 2006

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In focus

NICE Annual Report 2005/06