NICE International
Mission statement
NICE International contributes to better health around the world through the more effective and equitable use of resources.
It does this by providing advice on the use of evidence and social values in making clinical and policy decisions.
NICE International applies rigorous analytic methodology to:
- Put patients and the public first
- Respond to the needs and priorities of decision makers at all levels
- Emphasise an understanding of the social and cultural context
- Encourage transparent and inclusive decision making processes
NICE International also aims to undertake activities that have benefits outside of individual countries. These might include generation of knowledge products (such as case studies), preparation of tools for data collection and analysis, and facilitation of knowledge transfer among decision-makers across countries (such as through international meetings).
- More information on NICE International is available in this downloadable leaflet.
- The NICE International review highlights major projects and achievements throughout 2012
- For highlights of NICE international's work in 2011 please see the 2011 review
Latest news
May 2013
- NICE international delivered a two-day introductory course on Technology Appraisal, Clinical Guidelines/Pathways and Quality Standard in Vietnam
- Ministry of Health of Mongolia visit NICE
- As part of the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Protection Sociale´s (IHEPS) annual training programme, this year focusing on the economic and social challenges of healthcare policies, Francis Ruiz (NICE international) gave a presentation on NICE, its history, products and processes, to around 40 participants from diverse professional backgrounds. Attendees at the event included the French Ambassador and the Director of the IHEPS.
- Report published on Performance-Based Contracting Scheme in Family Medicine Practice in Turkey
- NICE International takes part in the 2nd Annual meeting of HTAsiaLink
- Congratulations to the Rockefeller Foundation on their 100th Anniversary, one of our partners in supporting the Ministries of Health in Vietnam, Ghana and the Philippines (the latter in partnership with the Thai Ministry of Public Health) with their aim to achieve universal health coverage
- NICE signs MoU with the Ministry of Public Health, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- NICE International meet key stakeholders and senior partners involved in the Z (benefit)-package in the Philippines
April 2013
- Sri Lankan Ministry of Health visits NICE
- NICE International jointly runs a workshop in Brasilia to facilitate sharing experience on methods and process of HTA and priority setting
- South African government publishes 2012/13 Health Review
- NICE International participated in a Bellagio meeting on value for money for global donors, focusing on the Global Fund - the processes and methods for assessing value for money are becoming increasingly important in a resource constrained environment, especially as countries are now more than ever before using their own funds to support interventions to battle disease.
March 2013
- Kalipso Chalkidou was part of a team of external reviews taking part in the 2nd independent evaluation of the Thai Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP). See the full evaluation for more information.
- Special guest, Kalipso Chalkidou of NICE UK speaks on Paying for Quality
Kalipso Chalkidou, founding director of NICE International, shared the latest experiences of "paying for quality" in the UK's National Health Service at a Results-Based Financing for Health seminar at the World Bank. - NICE international visits the Philippines with colleagues from HITAP
- NICE International meets with Ecuadorian policy makers in Quito
- Scoping visit to Johannesburg and Pretoria to meet with the National Department of Health and major stakeholders
- NICE International hosted a delegation from the Institute for Health Economics and Policy (IHEP), Japan
Read more in the NICE International news archive
Featured project
NICE International (NI) has been actively involved in the Chinese Rural Health Reforms since 2009. Its main counterpart in China is the China National Health Development and Research Centre (CNHDRC), a policy think-tank part of the Ministry of Health, which has over the years been leading on policy-orientated research projects of health strategy and health system reform; academic-based research of National Health Account and payment as well as health financial protection; and application-centred project of technology assessment and policy evaluation across China. This collaboration has so far been sponsored by DFID China.
In this latest part of the project, NI engaged in a series of activities, with the aim of informing CNHDRC and MoH's evaluation of the Clinical Pathways (CP) project, particularly with regards to its impact on costs and also to its potential for saving costs without compromising outcomes, in the longer run, should it be rolled out across rural China county hospitals.
Press and journal coverage
- Joint Learning Network, May 2013, Health Technology Assessment: A useful tool for countries moving toward Universal Health Coverage
- Invest in India, May 2013 India and United Kingdom Sign MOU on cooperation in Health sector
- KeralaNext, May 2013 Kerala health policy to make good health part of development agenda
- Health Affairs, March 2013, Health Affairs published a report on the clinical pathways pilots in rural China aiming at improving quality and efficiency in a series of high burden chronic diseases, with support from NICE International.
Read more in the NICE International press and journal coverage archive
Where can I find out more?
For details on how NICE International can work with you, please email: niceinternational@nice.org.uk
- Read more about active and completed NICE International projects.
- Find out more about NICE
- Una guía rápida sobre lo que es NICE (A guide to NICE in Spanish)
- View NICE's latest annual report
- Find out more about International Accreditation.
This page was last updated: 13 June 2013