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 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.

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.

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.

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.

If the patient was expected to live only one month extra and instead of three then NICE would issue a recommendation not to fund.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

NICE utililises the quality-adjusted life year ( QALY ) to measure the health benefits delivered by a given treatment regime.

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.

Where NICE has approved a treatment, the NHS must fund it.

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.

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.

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.

In January 2012, Tasigna was approved by NICE for addition to the United Kingdom health service's formulary as a first-line treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia ; Sprycel had been under consideration for this indication as well, but was rejected by NICE for formulary inclusion.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ).

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.