1. (almost) everything you wanted to know about NICE Stephen Judge, Implementation Consultant SW

2. NICE Field Team Eight consultants based in the field - the ‘local face’ of NICE Providing people implementing NICE guidance with updates, advice and support for your local strategies for implementation fieldteam@nice.org.uk

3. What is NICE? World leader in setting standards for high quality care and for promoting healthy living 2013 new remit for social care – renamed National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Evidence-based guidance and other products from NICE help resolve uncertainty about best quality care and what represents value for money www.nice.org.uk

4. NICE may be directed to prepare statements of standards in relation to the provision of: a)NHS service b)Public health services or c)Social care in England. In discharging its duty, the NHS Commissioning Board/Secretary of State must have regard to the quality standards prepared by NICE. Organisations improving the quality of health services must have regard to the quality standards prepared by NICE. Health and Social Care Act

5. Quality Standards Advice Guidance Tools