Changes at NICE

Below is a statement from NICE about recent changes. 

On April 1, our name changed to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to reflect our new role and responsibilities.

NICE's role is to improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services. We do this by:

• Producing evidence-based guidance and advice for health, public health and social care practitioners.
• Developing quality standards and performance metrics for those providing and commissioning health, public health and social care services;
• Providing a range of information services for commissioners, practitioners and managers across the spectrum of health and social care.

See About NICE on our website for further information. 

As a result of these developments  NHS Evidence is now called 'NICE Evidence Services'. NICE Evidence Services aim to help professionals make better and quicker evidence-based decisions and are a suite of services that provide online access to high quality, authoritative evidence and best practice. The services are:

• Evidence Search – which provides access to a unique index of selected and authoritative health and social care evidence-based information.
• Healthcare Database Advanced Search (HDAS) – which provides access via a federated search to a set of bibliographic databases purchased by NICE on behalf of the NHS.
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) – which provide primary care practitioners with access to evidence-based guidance on over 300 key conditions presenting in primary care.
• BNF microsite – which provides open access to BNF content across the UK.
• UK DUETS – a database of Evidence Uncertainties which provides research funders and researchers, access to the 'known unknowns' in the evidence base.
• Bulletins, Alerts and Evidence Awareness service – which helps busy professionals keep up to date with important new evidence.