The UK government organization NICE recently revised its recommendation favoring atypicals, to advise that the choice should be an individual one based on the particular profiles of the individual drug and on the patient's preferences.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), UK released updated diabetes recommendations on the 30th May 2008, which recommend that self-monitoring of plasma glucose levels for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes must be integrated into a structured self-management education process.

Because of the weakness of the evidence and the potential for serious side effects from some drug therapies, the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) 2009 clinical guideline for the treatment and management of BPD recommends: " Drug treatment should not be used specifically for borderline personality disorder or for the individual symptoms or behaviour associated with the disorder " but " drug treatment may be considered in the overall treatment of comorbid conditions ," and suggests " review of the treatment of people with borderline personality disorder who do not have a diagnosed comorbid mental or physical illness and who are currently being prescribed drugs, with the aim of reducing and stopping unnecessary drug treatment.

* Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering ( NICE ) Group, University of Surrey, UK

The report author noted that electrical stimulation devices and weighted vaginal cones are not recommended by the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) and " are not universally advocated by clinicians as they have yet to produce sufficient evidence of efficacy ".

In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) has made recommendations for the treatment of elevated cholesterol levels, published in 2008.

Antibiotics are administered to patients with certain heart conditions as a precaution, although this practice has changed in the US, with new American Heart Association guidelines released in 2007, and in the UK as of March 2008 due to new NICE guidelines.

These include the UK Department of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the National Health Service, NICE, and the National Cancer Intelligence Network.

In many countries, including the UK, the majority view among endocrinologists is that the failure of treatment to provide any demonstrable, measurable benefits in terms of outcomes means treatment is not recommended for all adults with severe GHD, and national guidelines in the UK as set out by NICE suggest three criteria which all need to be met for treatment to be indicated:

In the UK NICE published guidelines and approval in November 2010.

However, the recent 2011 UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) guideline on the management of primary hypertension in adults ( CG127 ) recommend calcium channel blockers ( CCBs ) as first line agents in hypertension and advise that thiazide-like diuretics should only be used first line if CCBs are not suitable or if the patient has edema or has a high risk of developing heart failure.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) is part of the National Health Service ( NHS ) in the UK and has been using QALYs to measure the health benefits delivered by various treatment regimens.

The approach is too new for any systematic reviews of RCTs to have been conducted, and therefore is not yet explicitly recommended by name by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ).

In a vote comprising 81 directors from 50 UK pharmaceutical companies, 80 % gave their backing to Mr Cass-beating Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, Chairman of NICE, Sir Michael Rawlins, and Director-General of the ABPI, Dr Trevor Jones.

In June 2006, the UK Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ) upheld the complaint by NICE and ruled that the use of the quote was in breach of ASA guidelines.

* Ataxia UK, including guidelines

There are process and product guidelines in Europe that date to the early 1980s ( Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland ) and only more recently in the UK and the US.

* UK SCADA security guidelines

In 2007, the UK watchdog CameraWatch claimed that the majority of CCTV cameras in the UK are operated illegally or are in breach of privacy guidelines.

* UK resuscitation council website-contains information on the latest approved guidelines

In the UK, any departure from these guidelines requires prior approval from the Secretary of State.

Guideline values have been created for exposure, but with unclear rationale ; UK guidelines for particulates in air ( PM10 ) are 50 µg / m < sup > 3 </ sup > and USA guidelines for exposure to crystalline silica are 50 µg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >.

In the UK, auditing guidelines are set by the institutes ( including ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS and ICAI ) of which auditing firms and individual auditors are members.

In the UK, guidelines issued by the Association for Clinical Biochemistry suggest a reference range of 0. 4-4. 5 mIU / L.

Other examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com & m dash ; try typing a letter with your keyboard for more & m dash ; and peepo. co. UK with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).

The primary grounds of appeal ( and the main mitigation in the original hearing )-that according to the UK Parliament's ' Green Book ' expenses guidelines, Chaytor's situation would have entitled him to claim more than he had done but on a different property-was dismissed as not relevant.

* Green top guidelines for Rh disease prevention 2002 from the RCOG ( UK )

Adult BLS guidelines in the United Kingdom were also published in 2005 by the Resuscitation Council ( UK ), based on the 2005 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science with Treatment Recommendations ( CoSTR ) published in November 2005.

The cemetery owner, church, or, as in the UK, national guidelines might encourage the use of ' tasteful ' and accurate wording in inscriptions.

Current UK guidelines suggest starting patients over the age of 55 years first on calcium channel blockers or thiazide diuretics.

The 2005 Joint European Resuscitation and Resuscitation Council ( UK ) guidelines state that atropine is the first line treatment especially if there were any adverse signs, namely: 1 ) heart rate < 40 bpm, 2 ) systolic blood pressure < 100 mm Hg, 3 ) signs of heart failure, and 4 ) ventricular arrhythmias requiring suppression.

In the UK the Royal College of Nursing has published guidelines in ' Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention '.

Land's End to John o ' Groats in Scotland is a distance of by road and this Land's End to John o ' Groats distance is often used to define races, walks or charitable events in the UK.

In the UK, the Rules of the Air define clearly in the principles of Low Flying Rules in Rule 5.

In the UK work on the Experimental Packet Switched system circa 1973, the need to define so called higher level protocols above the HDLC link level communications protocol and the content of an NCC ( UK ) publication ' Why Distributed Computing ' resulting from considerable research into future configurations for computer systems resulted in the UK presenting the case for an International Standards Committee to cover this area at the ISO meeting in Sydney in March 1977.

* Public policy produces many unintended consequences, and one celebrated example in the UK National Health Service is the policy that patients arriving at accident and emergency centres must be treated within a define period after entry.

Its first director general, Lord Reith introduced many of the concepts that would later define PSB in the UK when he adopted the mission to " inform, educate and entertain ".

UK Building Regulations also define what type of electrical light fittings ( i. e. how water -/ splash-proof ) may be installed in the areas ( zones ) around and above baths, sinks and showers.

Many of the UK labels ended up signing distribution deals with major labels to remain viable, but others retained their independence ( e. g. Factory Records, Warp, Wax On, BlancoMusic ) and the factor that came to define independent labels was distribution, which had to be independent of the majors for records to be included in the UK Indie Chart, which was first compiled in 1980.

UK regulations define a hackney carriage as a taxicab allowed to ply the streets looking for passengers to pick up, as opposed to private hire vehicles ( sometimes called minicabs ), which may pick up only passengers who have previously booked or who visit the taxi operator's office.

In addition to his work on earthquakes, Michell drew on geological observations collected on many European travels to advance the understanding of sedimentary stratigraphy and was the first to define the Mesozoic stratigraphy in the UK.

In the UK, the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 amended the Protection of Children Act 1978 so as to define the concept of an " indecent pseudo-photograph of a child ".

There are some international variations in weight class-for example, UK robot builders define the UK Antweight class limit as 150g.

These estimates, however, are questioned by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff and Mike Bull who draw attention to work by the EU Commission to define and study the European social economy Using the EU definition of social economy, the annual contribution of social enterpises to the UK econony is four times larger at £ 98 billion because it includes the contribution of all co-operatives, mutuals and associations that produce goods or services to improve human well-being.

The 2005 Output Area Classification ( OAC ) of the UK is a move to ' open geodemographics ' and reflects a concern that applications of commercial geodemographics in policy and social research can otherwise be ' black box ': it is not always clear exactly what variables were used to classify small areas and to define their neighbourhood type, how those variables were weighted, or how similar ( or otherwise ) each of the neighbourhoods within a class type actually are.