Is there any content I cannot reuse?

There are some situations where you will not be able to use our content.

You will not be able to use our content where:

  1. The document is one where the intellectual property is owned by a third party which is not a public sector body subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations (2015). This includes but is not limited to: Clinical Knowledge Summaries, the British National Formulary and its derivative outputs.

  2. Content is made available as part of a consultation process and is subject to amendment before formal publication by NICE.

  3. The request is to use the NICE logo and associated ‘marks’.

  4. The information is exempt from access by virtue of the UK’s access to information laws, including, but not exclusively, on the grounds of protecting personal data or commercial in confidence information.

Reuse of public sector information regulations

The amended EU Directive on the 're-use of Public Sector Information (PSI)' came into effect in the UK in July 2015. This requires public sector bodies to make their information available for reuse free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes so long as the activity falls within the organisation’s ‘public task’.

NICE has taken a broader approach to cover not only reuse but use of its content. This means that our content can be used if it mirrors our ‘public task’ and also if the reuse activity adds value to what we do.