How our guidance and standards can help you

NICE guidance and standards support health professionals by providing evidence-based recommendations that enhance clinical decision-making and patient care.

  • Assure your organisation that resources are being used wisely.

  • Make sure that providers are offering high-quality care.

  • Identify ways to save money or redirect resources.

  • Target resources at the areas that need them most.

  • Meet your statutory requirements.

  • Shape the market for health and social care for the benefit of all service users.

  • Use a common framework for solving problems and promote integrated care across sector or professional boundaries.

  • Understand what good care looks like.

  • Design effective local protocols.

  • Make professional judgements and prompt discussion with your patient, service user or carer.

  • Save money or redirect resources.

  • Deliver evidence-based education and training and continue your professional development.

  • Provide evidence of good governance, risk management and performance.

  • Prioritise areas for outstanding performance by using NICE quality standards.

  • Use a common framework for solving problems and promote integrated care across sector or professional boundaries.

  • Benchmark and share learning with other providers or practitioners.

  • Use our quality standards to focus on improvement.

  • Monitor progress or show compliance.

  • Understand what good care and health improvement provision looks like to inform policy development.

  • Show outstanding performance.

  • Show that evidence underpins your policy.

  • Develop policies that raise standards and improve quality while giving best value for money.

  • Promote economic and social well-being.

  • shape the market for health and social care for the benefit of all service users

  • Use a common framework for solving problems and promote integrated care across sector or professional boundaries.

  • Understand what good care or support looks like, so that you can feel confident in the care or support you are receiving.

  • Ask questions about your care or support based on what you have a right to expect.

  • Understand your choices and take part in decisions about your care.

  • Know how to seek support as a carer.

  • Play a part in improving your own health and wellbeing and in preventing disease.

  • Use our guidance to support people using health and social care services to help them understand what good care or support looks like.

  • Use our quality standards as a focus for quality improvement when working with others in a user group, patient or community organisation or local HealthWatch.

  • Use a common framework for solving problems and promote integrated care across sector or professional boundaries.