National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care (NCC-NSC)
What is the NCC-NSC?
The National Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Supportive Care is funded by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to develop clinical guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales.
The NCC-NSC was established in July 2001 and is based within the RCN Institute offices in Oxford. There are seven National Collaborating Centres (NCCs) funded by NICE, these are: nursing and supportive care; acute care; cancer; chronic conditions; mental health; primary care; and women’s and children’s health. The majority of these are hosted by Royal Colleges.
The NCC-NSC has a staff of ten overseen by the Director, Dr Ian Bullock. The NCC-NSC team is comprised of research and information specialists, systematic reviewers, health economists and administrative support staff. The team provides technical support in helping clinicians, patients and carers understand evidence topic related prior to recommendations for clinical practice being shaped.
NCC-NSC management board
The NCC-NSC is overseen by a management board comprised of a number of partner organisations. The board supports the Centre in all aspects of its work and has governance responsibility for the quality assurance of the work produced by the Centre.
The current partner organisations on the management board are:
- The Royal College of Nursing
- The Royal College of Nursing Institute
- The UK Cochrane Centre
- The Centre of Evidence-Based Nursing, University of York
- The Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford
- Healthcare Libraries, University of Oxford
- The Clinical Effectiveness Forum for Allied Health Professionals