What is NICE?

NICE guidance helps health and social care professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available evidence. This guidance supports healthcare professionals and others to make sure that the care they provide is of the best possible quality and offers the best value for money. The guidance is for the NHS, local authorities, charities, and anyone with a responsibility for commissioning or providing healthcare, public health or social care services. We also support these groups in putting our guidance into practice.

Wednesday 3 July 2013

NICE and social care

NICE has a new responsibility, from April 2013, to develop guidance and quality standards for social care in England. This provides an opportunity to apply an evidence-based system to decision-making in the social care sector, similar to that provided for the NHS. It will also allow us to produce guidance that promotes better integration between health, public health and social care services. Our guidance will be developed in close partnership with, rather than imposed upon, service users and carers, practitioners and organisations working in social care.
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