Current topics
The RCN helps develop NICE guidance by engaging with members who can provide the expertise of the NHS and the wider health care community.
The guidance NICE produces covers public health, guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS and guidance on the treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS.
Here are three recent examples of member involvement with NICE guidance:
- Public health: Looked-after children and young people (October 2010)
- Health technology: Rheumatoid arthritis - drugs for treatment after failure of a TNF inhibitor (August 2010)
- Clinical practice: Constipation in children and young people (May 2010)
This is a very large agenda but it is important that nursing is represented in this work.
View the current consultations that NICE are working on.
The RCN is involved in all these topics except where the care and management of patients with this condition is not carried out by nurses.
Please email Caroline Rapu (caroline.rapu@rcn.org.uk), RCN Project Manager, if you would like to be involved in any of the listed topics.