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.

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.

NICE is often associated with controversy, because the need to make decisions at a national level can conflict with what is ( or is believed to be ) in the best interests of an individual patient.

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 ).

" NICE objected that the statement was quoted out of context and was therefore misleading.

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.

This transfer does not grant cash customers subway access and does not allow inter-company transfers ( except between NYCT and MTA Bus or between NICE and Suffolk Transit ).

The name and mission was agreed in a meeting between the Ministerial team, Dr Tim Riley and Dr Felicity Harvey shortly after the election and it was agreed that NICE should be described in the first policy white paper, The New NHS: Modern, Dependable 1997

Even the NICE criteria for public funding of medical treatments were never set by politicians.

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 '.

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.

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.

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.

With the exception of landing on some world types ( being gas giants, Substellar Objects, and — although these have been made landable in NICE — unstable worlds ), this galaxy is entirely open to be explored.

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

NICE was established in an attempt to defuse the so-called postcode lottery of healthcare in England and Wales, where treatments that were available depended upon the NHS Health Authority area in which the patient happened to live but it has since acquired a high reputation internationally as a role model for the development of clinical guidelines.

NICE attempts to assess the cost-effectiveness of potential expenditures within the NHS to assess whether or not they represent ' better value ' for money than treatments that would be neglected if the expenditure took place.

From an individual's perspective it can sometimes seem that NICE is denying access to certain treatments but this is not so.

But not all treatments have been assessed by NICE and these treatments are usually dependent on local NHS decision making.

In its defence, NICE said the majority of its communications budget was spent informing doctors about which drugs had been approved and new guidelines for treatments and that the actual cost of assessing new drugs for the NHS includes money spent on NICE's behalf by the Department of Health.

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.

Based on this, NICE recommended choosing the hypnotic based on cost and the patient's preference.

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.

In August 2008, following more than two-and-half-years of campaigning led by RNIB, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) issued new guidance on drugs for treating wet Age-related Macular Degeneration ( AMD ).

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.

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 ).

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.

A conservative shadow minister once criticized NICE for spending more on communications than assessments.

Dollar bills are not accepted on any NICE fixed-route buses.

The transfers are valid for two hours and can be used on two connecting NICE routes.

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.

In August 2010, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) in the United Kingdom ruled that Xolair should not be prescribed on the National Health Service ( NHS ) to children under 12, causing widespread condemnation from asthma charities.

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.

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