NICE Clinical Guidance and Technology Appraisals
NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.
NICE produces guidance in three areas of health:
- Public Health - guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health for those working in the NHS, local authorities and the wider public and voluntary sector.
- Health Technologies - guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS.
- Clinical Practice - guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS/
The items listed below are a selection of guidance published and thought to be the areas most relevant to mental health services. For a full list of the work of NICE visit their website.
NICE Clinical Guidance
- Anxiety
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Dementia
- Depression in adults
- Depression with a chronic physical health problem
- Depression in Children and Young People
- Drug misuse: Opioid Detoxification
- Drug misuse: Psychosocial Interventions
- Eating Disorders
- Epilepsy
- Falls in Older People
- Infection Control
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Promoting mental wellbeing at work
- Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse
- Schizophrenia
- Self Harm
- Violence
NICE Technology Appraisals Issued
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Depression and Anxiety and Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT)
- Drug misuse - methadone and buprenorphine
- Drug misuse - naltrexone
- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
- Epilepsy Adults - Newer Drugs
- Epilepsy Children - Newer Drugs
- Insomnia - Newer Hypnotic Drugs
Page Last Updated: April 28 2011