Quality standards in development
NICE quality standards are currently being developed for the following topics:
Quality Standards in development
Title | Anticipated publication date |
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Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding | Jul 2013 |
Anxiety | Mar 2014 |
Atopic eczema in children | Sep 2013 |
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Jul 2013 |
Autism in children, young people and adults | Feb 2014 |
Caesarean section | Jun 2013 |
Children and young people with cancer | Mar 2014 |
Conduct disorders (children and young people) | May 2014 |
Depression in children and young people | Sep 2013 |
Faecal incontinence | Feb 2014 |
Familial hypercholesterolaemia | Aug 2013 |
Headache in young people and adults | Aug 2013 |
Heavy menstrual bleeding | Sep 2013 |
Hypertension in pregnancy | Jul 2013 |
Infection control | May 2014 |
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) | Sep 2013 |
Mental wellbeing of older people in residential care | Dec 2013 |
Metastatic spinal cord compression | Mar 2014 |
Multiple pregnancy | Sep 2013 |
Neonatal jaundice | Mar 2014 |
For information on the NICE quality standards work schedule for 2013/14 please refer to the quality standards forward planner.
Development
The Department of Health and other key partners have worked with NICE to develop a core library of topics for quality standard development in health-related topics. Future topics will be referred to NICE by NHS England for health-related areas, and by the Department of Health and Department for Education for non-health areas such as social care. The NICE Quality Standards Team develop quality standards in collaboration with Topic Expert Groups (TEGs) and Quality Standards Advisory Committees (QSACs).
For more information on the development of NICE quality standards in collaboration with TEGs please see Developing NICE quality standards: interim process guide and in collaboration with QSACs please see Quality standards process guide.
Engagement with stakeholders
We are keen to ensure that the development of NICE quality standards is open and transparent and that stakeholders have the opportunity to contribute. We therefore welcome comments at various points during the development process.
Topic overview
The NICE quality standards team develops a topic overview for each quality standard, based on the referral. The overview describes core elements of the standard, such as the population and condition or services to be covered, and lists the key source guidance that will be used to underpin the quality statements. At publication of the topic overview, NICE requests written submissions from QSAC specialist committee members and registered stakeholders asking them to:
- identify key areas for quality improvement
- highlight any national or routine indicators and performance measures not listed in the overview
- provide examples of published information on current practice (such as, reports of variation in care or service provision, evaluations of compliance with source guidance, or patient, carer or service user experience) to support the identified areas for quality improvement
- express interest in being an endorsing organisation. .
Draft quality standard
We also welcome comments on the draft quality standards. We are keen to ensure the quality statements within the quality standard will drive and measure priority quality improvements within a particular area of care, are important to the service and patients, service users and carers and are feasible to implement. NICE welcomes general feedback and comments on individual quality statements. Stakeholders may also be invited to respond to specific questions such as which quality statements are most important and why, whether there are important areas of care or service provision that are not included and if the proposed measures are appropriate. General feedback and comments on individual quality statements are accepted. For more information on individual consultations, please refer to the individual topic page. To find out how to submit your comments, please register as a stakeholder.
Endorsing NICE Quality Standards
If you would like your organisation to endorse a particular quality standard please email QualityStandards@nice.org.uk to express an interest. NICE is proud to jointly badge quality standards to help to achieve maximum dissemination among relevant audiences.
Those who endorse quality standards must be:
- National patient, carer, service user, voluntary, charity and non-governmental organisations that are run by, or directly reflect the perspectives of patients, service users, carers or client groups, and represent the interests of people whose care is covered by the quality standard in England.
- National organisations that represent the health or social care professionals who provide the services described in the quality standard in England.
- Statutory organisations (an organisation set up by government for a specific purpose) including Ofsted, Care Quality Commission (CQC), and Local Government Improvement and Development.
This page was last updated: 29 April 2013