Policy responses and statements

Name of organisation:

Department of Health

Name of policy document:

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE): Selection of topics - A consultation paper

Deadline for response:

9 June 2006

Background: This consultation paper sought views on some proposed changes to the way in which the Department of Health (DH) selects topics for referral to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

The main purpose of the changes is to:

ensure that NICE’s stakeholders – patients, healthcare professionals public health partners, the wider NHS and manufacturers of healthcare products – have clear opportunities to make an input into the selection of topics;

help the Department of Health to ensure that NICE’s work programme addresses topics of importance to patients and professionals and makes the best use of NHS resources;

integrate the selection of public health topics into the selection process; and

improve the timescale for referral of topics to NICE.

Download this consultation response as a .pdf

Copies of this response are available from:

Lesley Lockhart,
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh,
9 Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JQ.

Tel: 0131 225 7324    ext 608
Fax: 0131 220 3939

[9 June 2006]