About NICE guidelines

NICE guidelines are evidence-based recommendations for health and care in England and Wales.

They help health and social care professionals to prevent ill health, promote good health and improve the quality of care and services.

  • Shared decision making

    Our guidelines support shared decision making between healthcare professionals and people receiving care and treatment.

  • How we develop our guidelines

    We work with health and care professionals, people who use services and carers to draft our recommendations. Find out how we choose our topics, draft and publish our guidelines.

Prioritising our guidance topics

It's important that we prioritise those areas of guidance development and delivery that will have the greatest impact on the health and care system. To do this we're developing a new centralised approach.

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Get involved

We want you to be involved in our work. Whether you're commenting on our draft recommendations, taking part in guidance development or attending a committee meeting. Your voice is important to us.

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