10 NICE prioritisation board

NICE process and methods

The NICE prioritisation board has a decision-making role that drives forward NICE's strategic ambition to focus on what matters most and ensure that areas of greatest impact to the system are prioritised for guidance delivery.

The NICE prioritisation board:

reviews and discusses topic briefs to decide which of these should be prioritised for guidance delivery, including routing of technology appraisal or highly specialised technology
maintains an annual forward view of topics and a 'rolling plan' that it reviews and adjusts regularly, in response to changes in system need and demand
shares its decisions with NICE's guidance executive and publishes these on the NICE website to ensure visibility and to enable effective sharing of information with our stakeholders.

We share all topic briefs with the DHSC and NHSE before each prioritisation board meeting. Feedback from DHSC and NHSE, if any, will be considered by the NICE prioritisation board as part of their decision making, but the NICE prioritisation board is independent of DHSC and NHSE, and these bodies are not represented on the board itself.

NICE prioritisation board members reflect a collective view of their teams and directorates, not their personal view. Outputs from the internal horizon scanning and system intelligence functions will feed into the NICE prioritisation board and produce regular reports to support prioritisation and the development of the annual forward view.