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    4 Aims, purpose and outcomes

    What are the main aims, objectives and intended outcomes?

    The aim of the project is to develop methods and processes to allow for the incorporation and integration of NICE technology appraisal recommendations into NICE guidelines. Incorporation means the technology appraisal recommendations will be copied into to the NICE guideline with no or minimal changes to the wording and no comparative analysis undertaken. Integration means the treatment specified in the technology appraisal will be considered as part of a wider analysis against the other relevant treatments in the decision space.

    How does this fit in with the objectives of NICE?

    This project supports delivery of NICE's 'Useful and usable' business plan objective to ensure that NICE guidance is as useful and usable as it can be and that it is easy for our stakeholders to access all the information they need as quickly and easily as possible.

    How does it relate to other NICE policies or activity?

    No direct links with other NICE policies or activity have been identified.

    Who will benefit from it?

    Users of our guidelines will benefit because this approach allows them to find all the relevant information they need about the treatment of a condition in one place. The NHS will benefit because NICE technology appraisal integration into NICE guidelines ensures that the most clinically and cost-effective treatments are being offered. Patients and manufacturers will benefit because incorporating and integrating NICE technology appraisal recommendations into NICE guidelines ensures that they become more quickly embedded within treatment pathways.

    What are the main activities involved in implementation?

    Implementation steps will include alignment of methods and processes across the Centre for Guidelines and the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, agreeing approaches to engagement with industry, developing an interim methods and process manual, and piloting the approach on live NICE guidelines.