NICE quality standards in social care
The Health and Social Care Act (2012) sets out a new responsibility for NICE to develop quality standards and other guidance for social care in England.
Since early 2011 we have been developing an approach to producing guidance and quality standards for social care that takes into account the different settings and audiences for these products. During this time we have been engaging with commissioners, providers and users in social care to help make sure that the emerging concept fits their needs.
Main programme procurement
In addition to the development of two pilot social care quality standards (see below), we have issued the Invitation to tender for the procurement of a NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care.
Social care guidance
In preparation for the main programme of work, NICE held a workshop in December 2011 to review existing methodologies and processes for developing guidance for social care and to discuss possible methodological adaptations and developments. For further information, please see the report outlining discussions from this workshop.
Pilot programme
In 2011 the Department of Health asked NICE to run a pilot programme for developing social care quality standards using two topics. The pilot will test out draft methods and processes, explore the format and presentation of the quality standards in social care settings, and develop an approach to integrating related health and social care standards. NICE is working in collaboration with a range of social care organisations in the development of these two pilot quality standards.
A workshop in July 2011 set out the context and vision for developing social care quality standards by NICE, in collaboration with Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and a range of stakeholders from the social care community. Stakeholders gave us their views on the proposed process for developing social care quality standards and what can be done to ensure that they are useful and can be implemented in social care. A report outlining the discussions from this workshop is available.
Topics
The Department of Health has referred the following two topics to NICE to pilot:
Development
These pilot topics have been prioritised by the Departments of Health and Education and referred to NICE by ministers. The NICE Quality Standards Team develop quality standards in collaboration with Topic Expert Groups. For more information on the development of the pilot NICE social care quality standards see Social care quality standards - Interim process guide for the pilot topics.
Email enquiries
If you have any queries on the social care quality standards programme, please email: socialcarequeries@nice.org.uk
Stakeholders
If you are interested in registering as a stakeholder to support development of the social care quality standards pilots, please see the stakeholder registration page.
Project history
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16 August 2012
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Consultation on pilot draft quality standards on care of people with dementia and health and wellbeing of looked-after children begins |
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31 January 2012
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Topic expert groups met for the first time to consider the scope of the topic as well as relevant evidence sources for development of the standard |
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31 October 2011
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A briefing workshop on the two pilot topics with interested stakeholders was held on 31 October 2011 in Manchester |
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17 October 2011
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Report from the social care quality standards workshop on 15 July 2011 has been published |
This webpage will be regularly updated to inform stakeholders and members of the public of any updates to our pilot programme. Registered stakeholders will be informed when this webpage is updated. To register, go to the stakeholder registration page.
This page was last updated: 05 October 2012