Implementing NICE Guidance: A Practical Handbook for Professionals

✍ Scribed by National Prescribing Centre

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a practical guide for NHS clinicians and managers on how to adopt and monitor National Guidance, such as NICE Clinical Guidelines, Technology Appraisal Guidance and Referral Advice, Developed by the NHS for the NIIS, it looks at the roles and responsibilities of key individuals in health service organisations, and provides checklists and frameworks for ensuring National Guidance is translated into local action. The handbook includes numerous examples from those in the NHS involved in implementing guidance. Each example includes a contact person who is willing to expand on their experiences. The handbook also contains checklists and aids that can be tailored to specific circumstances. Good clinical guidance, successfully introduced, can improve the healthcare of the whole population. Whether you are actively involved in managing the implementation of guidance, or you just need to know what is going on, this handbook is essential reading.