Who can register as a stakeholder?
Find out more about the types of organisations that can register to be a stakeholder at NICE.
If you'd like to register your organisation as a stakeholder, it should fit into one of the categories below.
This includes:
national charities
national patient, user or carer groups.
We do accept:
Local or regional organisations when there is no national organisation that represents the group's specific interests.
Overseas organisations where there is no national UK organisation that represents their interests. Their interests must be relevant for the UK population.
We do not accept:
Local or regional organisations that only have a remit for a specific geographic area of the UK.
Sub-departments of a wider national organisation. If your organisation has representatives that wish to register as stakeholders, they should register through the wider organisation name.
How can local or regional organisations take part?
Local or regional organisations should register through a national organisation that represents their interests.
This includes national organisations that represent:
health and social care practitioners
professionals whose practice may be affected by the guideline
professionals who can influence the uptake of guideline recommendations.
For example:
Royal Colleges
medical associations
public health and social care professional associations.
This includes public sector providers and commissioners of care or services.
For example:
NHS trusts
integrated care boards (ICBs)
primary care networks (PCNs)
local authorities.
Healthwatch is an independent, statutory body that acts as a health and social care champion, listening to people's experiences and ensuring their voices are heard by NHS leaders and other decision-makers.
Local Healthwatch organisations can register as NICE stakeholders.
This includes organisations that fund or undertake peer reviewed research. For example:
funding councils
universities based within the UK.
We can accept international organisations if they fund or carry out research within the UK or on UK populations.
This includes:
private providers
not-for-profit providers
the voluntary sector
providers of care
other independent providers.
For example:
private hospitals
hospices
care homes.
This includes companies that manufacture:
medicines
devices
equipment or adaptations.
It also includes commercial industries relevant to public health. It does not include the tobacco industry.
For example:
Department of Health and Social Care
Public Health England.
For example:
The World Health Organization (WHO).
Your work should be directly relevant for the UK population.
Organisations that cannot register as stakeholders
For reasons of capacity, local patient and carer and professional groups cannot register as stakeholders unless there is no national organisation that represents the group's specific interests.
Individuals cannot register as stakeholders. However, we encourage anyone with an interest in the topic to participate by contacting a registered stakeholder and expressing their views to them.
Each piece of guidance has a list of registered stakeholders. You can find the list of registered stakeholders:
on the project documents tab, for guidance that's in development
on the history tab, for published guidance.