Introduction
Introduction
NICE's core purpose is to help practitioners and commissioners get the best care to people fast, while ensuring value for the taxpayer. To support the changing needs and objectives of all parts of the health and care system, NICE is transforming to ensure its guidance remains relevant, timely, useable and has a demonstrable impact on health and care.
Currently, NICE's guidance is published according to the programme that developed it. NICE wants to bring together and make it easier for users to find all its guidance about a condition and support the delivery of NICE's strategic objective to provide guidance that is useful and useable. The aim is to provide a better experience for users and help increase the adoption of NICE guidance, leading to better outcomes for patients and better use of NHS resources.
To support this strategic objective, we developed interim methods and processes for including NICE technology appraisal recommendations in guideline topic areas. These interim methods and processes set out our proposed approach to including technology appraisal recommendations in guidelines by incorporation or integration, which were planned to be piloted on selected guideline updates.
This paper provides an overview of the public consultation on the interim methods and processes statement for including NICE technology appraisal recommendations in guideline topic areas. It summarises, by theme, the comments received during the consultation, along with the planned response to those comments, including changes to the proposed interim methods and processes statement. The themes and responses contained in this paper will be published on the NICE website alongside an updated version of the interim methods and process statement and Equalities and Health Inequalities Assessment (EHIA).