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    NICE integrated topic prioritisation and strategic principles

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    1 Background – NICE's transformation

    NICE's purpose is to help practitioners and commissioners get the best care to people fast, while ensuring value for the taxpayer. We've achieved this for 25 years, delivering a huge body of guidance, grounded in the principles of independence, transparency and rigour. These are principles that are globally respected and will never be compromised.

    However, the health and care system has changed rapidly since our inception, so we too must evolve. Our principles and fundamental priorities remain the same. But we are evolving to meet the changing needs of our users, increasing our focus on the relevance, timeliness, usability, affordability, and demonstrable impact of our products.

    As part of this transformation, we are introducing a new overarching approach to prioritisation and topic selection. This will be overseen by a single prioritisation board that will guide the selection and coordination of our guidance development.

    This document provides an overview of how we propose to approach this and includes the following:

    • NICE's integrated topic prioritisation manual. The manual provides an overview of the process through which NICE will identify new topics and updates for prioritisation, and the decision-making framework that will be used by the NICE prioritisation board. This will replace NICE health technology evaluation topic selection: the manual. Central to the approach are key criteria to inform consideration of the priority of topics. These have been developed from existing approaches to guidance topic selection at NICE, a 'NICE Listens' deliberative public engagement and the strategic vision for the organisation.

    • NICE's strategic principles for public health, social care and rare diseases. These strategic principles will guide the prioritisation of topics related to public health, social care and rare diseases, and are the outcome of engagement with key stakeholders. They are designed to complement NICE's existing core principles, for use alongside the new integrated prioritisation process outlined above, to ensure that these topics are not overlooked.