NICE and NHS Evidence Search

Question 1

NHS England

Answer 1

• Commissioning: planning, agreeing and monitoring services

* Integration of services

Question 2

NICE

Answer 2

• Evidence, guidance and Standards

Question 3

NHS improvement

Answer 3

• Economic regulation

Question 4

Care Quality Commission

Answer 4

• Registration and assurance

Question 5

Core principles of all NICE guidance

Answer 5

• Independent advisory committees
• Expert input
• Patient and carer involvement
• Comprehensive evidence base
• Genuine consultation
• Regular review
• Open and transparent process

Question 6

Evidence Based Medicine

Answer 6

• is the process of systematically reviewing, appraising and using clinical research findings to aid the delivery of optimum clinical care to patients

Question 7

EBM –>

Answer 7

EMB -> NICE -> NHS

• EBM is used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Scottish Medicines Consortium and the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
• They look at health economic analysis and directly commissioned health technology assessments (HTAs)
• NICE then create guidance as to which treatments should be available within the NHS

Question 8

Slawson and Shaughnessy’s Information Pyramid

Answer 8

Cochrane Library, NICE etc

Evidence summaries, Clinical Evidence, CKS

EBM DTB

“Ivy League” journals

Textbooks

Medline

Question 9

What is available on NICE

Answer 9

• Key browsable NICE procured resources. NB All are NICE Evidence Search sources too.
• Clinical Knowledge Summaries
• BNF – updated every month
• British National Formulary for Children – updated every month
• NICE pathways and Guidelines
• Journals + Databases