UK NHS: 4 Updates to NICE’s Manual for Methods

Published on May 24, 2023

The UK’s National Institute of Health and Care Excellency (NICE) – an agency of the country’s National Health Service – has updated its methods. Experts Katerina Stavri, Sathushi Theivendran, and Rebecca Ford outline what changes have been implemented and what this means for UK healthcare. 

In January 2022, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) completed the first major update of its methods and processes since 2013, with changes coming into effect earlier this year. This brief summarizes the four key changes outlined in NICE’s updated manual.

Change 1 – Valuation of benefits: Introduction of the severity of a disease modifier in place of previous end-of-life criteria

A severity modifier replaces end-of-life criteria, in an aim to prioritize and improve access for treatments for severe conditions.

NICE’s end-of-life: Treatments for patients with short life…

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