NICE stated that long-term use of benzodiazepines for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia is an unlicensed indication, does not have long-term efficacy, and is, therefore, not recommended by clinical guidelines.

Opponents of the current reform care proposals fear that U. S. comparative effective research ( a plan introduced in the stimulus bill ) will be used to curtail spending and ration treatments, which is one function of NICE, arguing that rationing by market pricing rather by government is the best way for care to be rationed.

NICE is therefore applying the same market pricing principles to make the hard job of deciding between funding some treatments and not funding others on behalf of everyone in the insured pool.

The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), told The Guardian newspaper that " it is neither true, nor is it anything you could extrapolate from anything we've ever recommended " that Kennedy would be denied treatment by the NHS.

Currently, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) of England ’ s National Health Service ( NHS ) uses cost-effectiveness studies to determine if new treatments or therapies provide better value relative to the treatment that is currently in use.

In Europe's largest health market Germany the Institute for Quality and Economy in Health Services ( Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen-IQWiG ) is responsible, while it is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICE in the United Kingdom.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) is a special health authority of the English National Health Service ( NHS ), serving both English NHS and the Welsh NHS.

This is submitted to NICE for approval.

This is submitted to NICE who then formally approve the guideline and issues this guidance to the NHS.

In practice this exercise is not done, but an assumed shadow price has been used by NICE for many years in its assessments to determine which treatments the NHS should and should not fund.

NICE states that for drugs the cost per QALY should not normally exceed £ 30, 000 but that there is not a hard threshold, though research has shown that any threshold is " somewhat higher " than being in the range £ 35, 000-£ 40, 000.

The House of Commons Health Select Committee, in its report on NICE, stated in 2008 that " the (...) cost-per-QALY it uses to decide whether a treatment is cost-effective is of serious concern.

The threshold it employs is not based on empirical research and is not directly related to the NHS budget, nor is it at the same level as that used by Primary Care Trusts ( PCTs ) in providing treatments not assessed by NICE, which tends to be lower.

The work that NICE is involved in attracts the attention of many groups, including doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, and patients.

It is thin, rectangular in shape, with rounded bumps on the edges, and lightly covered with a scattering of large sugar crystals, often with the word " NICE " imprinted on top in sans-serif capital letters.

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.

NICE review pointed out that short-acting Z-drugs were inappropriately compared in clinical trials with long-acting benzodiazepines.

NICE said that CBT would become the mainstay of treatment for non-severe depression, with medication used only in cases where CBT had failed.

The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) guidelines recommend ECT for patients with severe depression, catatonia, or prolonged or severe mania.

The 2003 NICE ECT guidelines do not recommend ECT for schizophrenia, and this has been supported by meta-analytic evidence showing no or little benefit versus placebo, or in combination with antipsychotic drugs, including Clozapine.

The NICE 2003 guidelines state that doctors should be particularly cautious when considering ECT treatment for women who are pregnant and for older or younger people, because they may be at higher risk of complications with ECT.

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.

Now with the ability to grant a B. Ed., school leaders took it upon themselves to use the name North Idaho College of Education ( NICE ).

It was set up as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in 1999, and on 1 April 2005 joined with the Health Development Agency to become the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( still abbreviated as NICE ).

NICE also plays an important role in pioneering technology assessment in other healthcare systems through NICE International, established in May 2008 to help cultivate links with foreign governments.

Once this has been done NICE works with the Department of Health to draw up the scope of the appraisal.

As a guideline rule, NICE accepts as cost effective those interventions with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of less than £ 20, 000 per QALY and that there should be increasingly strong reasons for accepting as cost effective interventions with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of over a threshold of £ 30, 000 per QALY.

For example the NHS usually pays for several rounds of treatment for fertility problems but because NICE has not assessed them some PCTs may cap the number of rounds and the patient may then have to pay privately if he or she wished to continue with fertility treatments beyond the capped level.

All these are drugs with a high cost per treatment and NICE has either rejected or restricted their use in the NHS on the grounds that they are not cost-effective.

The NICE report concluded that women who give birth at home are more likely to deliver vaginally and to have greater satisfaction from the experience when compared with women who plan to give birth in a hospital.

* ACerS-American Ceramic Society with their National Institute of Ceramic Engineers ( NICE )

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.

But certain cancer drugs not approved by NICE because of cost will be available only if the patient is prepared to pay a co-pay to make up the difference in the NICE perceived value and the actual cost.

However the Department of Health said that it has ' made it clear to PCTs that funding for treatments should not be withheld simply because guidance from NICE is unavailable '.

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:

NICE has been criticised for being too slow to reach decisions.

Some of the more controversial NICE decisions have concerned donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine ( review ) and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and bevacizumab, sorafenib, sunitinib and temsirolimus for renal cell carcinoma.

There is some question as to how well coordinated NICE and NHS are in making decisions about resource allocation.

The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) suggests patients taking only one type of AEDs at a time.

Some refractive surgeons in the United Kingdom and United States, including at least one author of a study cited in the report, proposed that NICE relied on information that was severely dated and weakly researched.

On the other hand, some PCTs struggle to implement NICE guidance at the current threshold and other witnesses argued that a lower level should be used.

Wazuka's band of top tea farmers known as the Yukichaken and the local community are in cooperation with NICE one of the major volunteer program companies and hold together the biggest annual work camp at the end of August lasting 2 weeks.

In 2006 Mega launched the electric Mega City at the British International Motor Show and in 2009 acquired the assets of NICE Car Company, which went into administration in 2008.

* Narmada Infrastructure Construction Enterprise Limited ( NICE )-An SPV formed for design, construction, maintenance and operation of the 1. 4 km second Narmada bridge, including 4. 6 km of approach roads, on BOT basis on NH-8 at Zadeshwar, Gujarat.

Students may take courses at any of the local universities participating in the Northern Indiana Consortium for Education ( NICE )..