Guidelines issued by the UK-based National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), carried out a systematic review using different methodology and came to a different conclusion.

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.

In 2004, the British National Health Service's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) considered a systematic review of four randomized controlled trials before issuing guidelines for the use of LASIK within the NHS.

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.

In 2007, after a comprehensive review of the literature, the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) expressed concern for the lack of quality evidence comparing the potential risks and benefits of home and hospital birthing environments.

NICE carries out assessments of the most appropriate treatment regimes for different diseases.

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:

Manual control is not available in Noctis IV, but is planned for Noctis V. The stardrifter itself has a hull made out of quartz, which can be made opaque by polarizing it, or left to be transparent ( or rendered entirely invisible if NICE is being used ).

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

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

Revised guidelines ( IPG164 ) were issued by NICE in March 2006, stating,

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.

When these were added to NICE's own costs, the total cost of the technology appraisal programme far outstrips the cost of NICE communications.

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.

NICE includes bug fixes and additional features which increase the playability compared to Noctis IV.

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.

In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) recommends CBT in the treatment plans for a number of mental health difficulties, including posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive – compulsive disorder ( OCD ), bulimia nervosa, and clinical depression.

In the United Kingdom, clinical practice guidelines are published primarily by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ).

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) published the paper Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit, which defines clinical audit as

A more positive view of the benefits of Ezetimibe is offered by Britain's NICE statement which however was published in 2007 and may not have been updated to reflect the results of the above mentioned trials.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

According to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ), benzodiazepines can be used in the immediate management of GAD, if necessary.

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 only medications NICE recommends for the longer term management of GAD are antidepressants.

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

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

Due to a lack of data, The NICE Guidelines for the Treatment and Management of Adult Depression ( 2009 ) issued no updated treatment recommendation for the use of maintenance or relapse prevention ECT.

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.

Palin had alleged that America will create rationing " death panels " to decide whether old people could live or die, again widely taken to be a reference to NICE.

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.

In the UK, the NICE guidelines define infertility as failure to conceive after regular unprotected sexual intercourse for 2 years in the absence of known reproductive pathology.