NICE Annual Conference 2014

NICE Annual Conference 2014

The NICE Annual Conference will offer over 28+ hours of high-level educational sessions from 115+ expert speakers and facilitators. There are 11 plenary sessions and 10 streams of over 30 breakout sessions, plus the opportunity to attend a workshop on implementation issues with the NICE Field team.
In addition, there are 8+ hours of networking and shared learning time with peers and experts, and access to over 1500 professionals from the health and social care sector, with whom you can discuss new ideas and solutions to the changing care landscape and share your experiences in this evolving integrated sector.

Key questions being explored and debated at the NICE Annual Conference 2014 include:

• The integration challenge- how does it work in practice?
• One year on from Francis – where are we now?
• How can we rethink the patient experience?
• How can commissioners balance their resources with the needs of patients and service users?
• How are NICE and Public Health England supporting the public health system?

NICE and social care

NICE and social care

This document explains the remit of NICE social care guidelines and this manual explains how we develop social care guidelines.

Standards of care for people who self-harm must be improved, says NICE

Standards of care for people who self-harm must be improved, says NICE

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a quality standard to improve the quality of care and support for children, young people, and adults who self-harm.
The term self-harm is used to refer to any act of self-injury or self-poisoning carried out by a person, irrespective of their motivation. This commonly involves self-injury by cutting or self-poisoning with medication. Hospitals in England deal with around 220,000 episodes of self-harm by 150,000 people each year [i].