Depression in adults: treatment and management

You can now review and comment on this draft guideline.

The consultation closes on 5pm, 12 January 2022

How to comment

1. Register your organisation or comment as an individual

If you’re commenting for an organisation, your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder.

Not eligible? Contact the stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

We can accept comments from individuals. These will be considered, but you won’t get a formal response and they won’t be posted on the NICE website. Wherever possible we encourage you to submit your comments through a registered stakeholder organisation.

2. Read the consultation documents

Documents to comment on:

• Draft guideline – just the recommendations
  • Visual summary – less severe depression
  • Visual summary - more severe depression

• Evidence reviews
  • Evidence review A - Service delivery
  • Evidence review B - Treatment of a new episode of depression
  • Evidence review C - Prevention of relapse
  • Evidence review D - Further-line treatment
  • Evidence review E - Chronic depression
  • Evidence review F - Depression with coexisting personality disorder
  • Evidence review G - Psychotic depression
  • Evidence review H - Access to services
  • Evidence review I - Patient Choice

• Supplements
  • Supplement A1 Clinical evidence tables for review question 1.1
  • Supplement A2 Clinical evidence tables for review question 1.2
  • Supplement B1 - Clinical evidence review tables for review question 2.1 - 2.2
  • Supplement B2 - Forest plots for review question 2.1
  • Supplement B3 - Forest plots for review question 2.2
  • Supplement B4 - Pairwise and NMA comparisions 2.1 - 2.2
  • Supplement B5 - TSU report appendices for review question 2.1. - 2.2
  • Supplement B6 - TSU excel files NMA full results review question 2.1 - 2.2
  • Supplement C - Clinical evidence tables for review question 2.3
  • Supplement D - Clinical evidence tables for review question 2.4 - 2.5
  • Supplement E - Clinical evidence tables for review question 2.6 
  • Supplement F- Clinical evidence tables for review question 2.7
  • Supplement G - Clinical evidence tables for review question 2.8 
  • Supplement H - Clinical evidence tables for review question 3.0
  • Supplement I - Clinical evidence tables for review question 4.0 
  • Methods

 Other information about the consultation

• Equality impact assessment
• Committee membership list and declarations of interests
• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved
• Glossary and abbreviations
• Economic evidence Included & excluded studies
• Staff and contributors

3. Add your comments

• You must use this comments form.
• You must declare any links with, or funding from, the tobacco industry

If you share similar views with another organisation, send a joint response.

Make sure you consider:

• The areas that will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement
• How to help users overcome challenges

Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved suggests some other areas to comment on.

4. Email the form to us

Email: DepressionInAdultsUpdate@nice.org.uk

Deadline: 5pm, 12 January 2022

5. Economic model

The developer has produced an economic model to support the guideline on depression in adults: treatment and management. To receive an executable version of this model, please submit a request to DepressionInAdultsUpdate@nice.org.uk with a signed copy of the confidentiality acknowledgement and undertaking form.

We will then send you a link to an executable version of the economic model by email. The deadline for returning your comments is the same as for the guideline consultation: 5pm, 12 January 2022.