NICE is developing a public health guideline on Excess winter deaths and illnesses: identifying and supporting vulnerable children and older people.

All registered stakeholders for the above public health guideline are invited to comment on the provisional recommendations via this website during a 6 week consultation with stakeholders.

Organisations not registered as stakeholders are not able to comment.

How to register as a stakeholder

Please note - the provisional recommendations presented here do not constitute NICE’s formal guideline on this topic. The recommendations are provisional and may change after consultation.

This consultation will take place between 13 June – 25 July 2014

The draft guideline sets out the provisional recommendations that have been developed.

Please note - Comments forms with attachments such as research articles, letters or leaflets will not be accepted. If comments forms do have attachments they will be returned without being read. If the stakeholder resubmits the form without attachments, it must be by the consultation deadline.

Consultation Documents:

Excess winter deaths and illnesses: draft guideline

Excess winter deaths and illnesses - consultation on the draft guideline:  stakeholder comments form

Points to consider in the consultation:

• Points or areas that are not covered, but which appear to fall within the scope of the guideline.
• Potential inconsistencies or any disagreement with the Public Health Advisory Committee’s interpretation of the evidence and its applicability.
• The practical value of the provisional recommendations.
• Issues of presentation and style, including how the provisional recommendations have been grouped and ordered.
• Whether the right organisations and individuals have been identified under ‘Who should take action’ for each recommendation.
• Do you think this guideline could be improved to better promote equality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status? If so,  please include details of:
  • Which particular parts of the guideline you think affect equality of opportunity.
  • Why and how you think equality of opportunity is affected.
• In addition are there any reasons why any of the recommendations in the guideline may result in an increase in inequality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status?

How to submit your comments

Please provide all responses to the draft guideline using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name). Please forward the form by 5pm on 25 July 2014 at the very latest to excesswinterdeaths@nice.org.uk

The Institute is unable to accept:

• More than one response per stakeholder organisation
• Comments received after the consultation deadline
• Comments that are not complete on a stakeholder comments form
• Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public
• Comments forms with attachments such as research articles, letters or leaflets. If comments forms do have attachments they will be returned without being read. If the stakeholder resubmits the form without attachments, it must be by the consultation deadline.

What will happen to your comments?

• All comments (with the exception of personal, individual comments and late comments) will be sent to the project team at the end of the consultation
• Comments from registered stakeholders will be formally responded to by the project team and posted on the NICE website after the final guideline is published.
• No action will be taken upon receipt of personal, individual comments and late comments.

Please Note: The Institute reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.

Supporting evidence

Excess winter deaths and illnesses - consultation on the draft guideline: supporting evidence

Contents:

The following evidence was used by the Public Health Advisory Committee in developing the provisional recommendations.

EWD review1 final for consultation

EWD review2 final for consultation

EWD review3 final for consultation

Expert Paper 1 Alzheimer's, dementia and excess winter mortality

Expert Paper 2 Children's health and wellbeing and cold homes

Expert Paper 3 Benefit changes, fuel poverty and disability

Expert Paper 4 Working in local partnerships to address the impact of cold homes

Expert Paper 5 OFGEM's Vulnerable Consumer Strategy and related initiatives

Expert Paper 6 The role of Clinical Commissioning Groups in addressing the impact of cold homes

Expert Paper 7 Policy update and Energy Company Obligations

Expert Paper 8 The role of energy companies in addressing the impact of cold homes

NICE Economic Modelling Report Final