Jane Moore

Implementation Consultant

jane.moore@nice.org.uk

NICE resources for evidence

based practice

How can you use NICE resources to

help adopt evidence into practice?

Implementation Consultants

• 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

Programme

• Introduction, developments at NICE

• Practical exercise - types of guidance

• New product - NICE Quality standards

• Easier ways to access the guidance

• NICE pathways

• Implementation tools

• Practical exercise - finding tools & resources

• Discussion and questions

• Evaluation and summing up

Learning outcomes

• Become more aware of the full range

of NICE guidance, standards, and

implementation tools

• Be able to navigate the NICE

website more easily

• Be more aware of how you might use

NICE guidance and tools to support

your users, and contribute to the

organisational culture of evidence

based practice

Health and Social Care Act

- direct issues for NICE

• NDPB status

• Name change

• Social care remit

• Work with NHS England

• Value-based pricing

• Focus on Quality

Standards and outcomes

frameworks

Exercise

Match up the following:

• NICE programme

• Programme description

• Example product

You have 10 minutes

You may work in pairs

NICE Quality Standards

Designed to drive quality

improvements across a pathway of

care.

A set of specific, concise statements

and associated measures that:

act as markers of high-quality,

cost-effective care

are derived from the best

available evidence

are produced collaboratively

with NHS and social care

professionals, along with their

partners and service users.

Guidance and

Key policy

documents

Audit evidence of

the variation in care

NICE

Quality

Standards

An example: chronic kidney disease

A set of 15 statements –

sentinel markers of high quality

care for patients with chronic

kidney disease

Underpinned by 10 source

guidelines, three from NICE

and seven from the Renal

Association, both accredited

sources.

180 healthcare quality standard topics

Also from NICE

• Quality and outcomes framework (QOF)

• Commissioning outcomes framework (COF)

• NICE International

• Scientific Advice

• Medicines Prescribing Centre (was NPC)

• Support for quality and productivity (QIPP)

• Patient Access Scheme Liaison Unit (PASLU)

• Public Involvement Programme (PIP)

• NICE Evidence Search

Easier ways to access

guidance and advice

Accessing the guidance

Improved search returning more relevant results

Prominent ‘feature’ section promoting NICE’s latest developments

Drop-down guidance browser

Ability to browse by date / type

New browse by setting feature

Topic-based browsing – reflecting the way we know users prefer to view guidance

New look guidance “landing pages”

NICE pathways

1. Bring together related

guidance, between

and within topics

2. Link other products –

Quality Standards,

implementation

support tools etc

3. Provide a useful

format in a network of

recommendations

4. Improve digital

formatting for easier

access

Self harm care pathway

CHF - NICE Pathway drop down menu –

explore options note: Into Practice option

Care Pathway for Psoriasis

showing navigation drop

down menu and source

guidance links

Information at your fingertips….apps

• Android and iPhone

• Browse

• Rapid searches

• Bookmark for offline use

• Receive automatic updates

Support for implementation

Implementation - practical support

• How to guide

• Forward planner

• Slide sets

• Costing reports and templates

• Self assessment/audit tools

• Educational tools

• Podcasts & transcripts

• Shared learning database

• Medicines support

• Implementation consultants

Exercise

• Complete the worksheet

• You have 45 mins

• You may confer !

Current NICE

consultations

Comment on our draft guidance and quality standards

Stakeholder registration Ensure your organisation is registered so you can be

alerted about consultations and submit comments

Join a NICE committee

or working group

NICE committees consist of a wide range of healthcare

professionals and vacancies are listed on our website

Patient and public

involvement

There is a range of opportunities for service users to

get involved, with full support from our PPI team

Fellows and Scholars

Opportunities for healthcare professionals’ personal

development by becoming ambassadors for NICE

www.nice.org.uk/getinvolved

Getting clinicians involved in developing

evidence based guidance

Signposting library users to resources for

adopting evidence into practice?

• Working with trust NICE lead/Medical Director

• Becoming ambassadors for evidence based

implementation tools

• Embed support tools into searches

• Promote resources for finding information

• Incorporate into training and induction

• Facilitate access to resources

• Raising the library profile within the wider organisation

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