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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Low-energy contact X-ray brachytherapy (the Papillon technique) for locally advanced rectal cancer in August 2019. NICE is currently updating this guidance. The new guidance will be published shortly. Until then the NHS should continue to follow the recommendations outlined in the current version of the guidance. The Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee (IPAC) will consider this procedure review and NICE will issue an interventional procedures consultation document about its safety and efficacy for 4 weeks’ public consultation. IPAC will then review the consultation document in the light of comments received and produce a final interventional procedures document, which will be considered by NICE before guidance is issued to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
 
Status Awaiting development
Technology type Procedure
Decision Selected
Reason for decision Anticipate the topic will be of importance to patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and the health of the public to ensure clinical benefit is realised, inequalities in use addressed, and help them make the best use of NHS resources
Process IP
ID number 1724

Provisional Schedule

Committee meeting: IPAC 0 09 January 2025
Committee meeting: IPAC 1 08 May 2025
Committee meeting: IPAC 2 11 September 2025
Resolution 20 October 2025
Expected publication 13 November 2025

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Timeline

Key events during the development of the guidance:

Date Update
01 November 2024 Awaiting development. Status change linked to Topic Selection Decision being set to Selected
25 June 2025 - 23 July 2023 Interventional procedure consultation

For further information on how we develop interventional procedures guidance, please see our interventional procedures programme manual