NICE is developing public health intervention guidance on sun protection resources and environmental changes to prevent skin cancer for NHS and local authorities.

All registered stakeholders for the above public health intervention guidance are invited to comment on the draft scope.

This consultation will take place between 28 May - 25 June 2009.

Please provide all responses to this draft scope using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name) and forwarding this by 5pm on Thursday 25^th June at the very latest to the following email address: resourcesandenvironmentskincancer@nice.org.uk

Consultation Documents:

Resources and environmental changes to prevent skin cancer: draft scope

Resources and environmental changes to prevent skin cancer: consultation on the draft scope: stakeholder comments form

The Institute is unable to accept:

• More than one response per stakeholder organisation
• Comments received after the consultation deadline
• Comments that are not on the correct proforma
• Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public

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 scope 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.