NICE accreditation
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What is accreditation?
The accreditation programme assesses the processes used to produce guidance and advice. This will, in turn, help raise standards in guidance production.
Please continue to use the search facilities on NICE Evidence Service to search for accredited guidance.
Benefits of accreditation
- To help health and social care professionals identify the most trusted sources of guidance developed using critically evaluated high quality processes
- To drive up the quality of information used by health and social care professionals in decision making
- To improve patient outcomes through providing robust evidence for NICE quality standards
Why apply for accreditation?
- Increase the visibility of guidance and advice
- Attain accreditation for guidance making it eligible to be considered for the development of NICE quality standards
- Promote guideline development processes as being robust and transparent
- Use the NICE accreditation mark as an indication of high standard, good quality information
Eligibility | Readiness to apply | Application |
Guidance producers that meet our definition of guidance and advice, as detailed in the Accreditation process manual, may apply for accreditation. |
We assess guidance processes against 25 criteria. View our process manual below for further details about the assessment process and to access our new models of practice and gap analysis tool. |
If you are eligible and ready, complete and submit the accreditation application form. |
Recent accreditations
British Society for RheumatologyBritish Society for Rheumatology achieved accreditation in February 2013 for their clinical guidelines produced using the processes described in the British Society for Rheumatology guidelines protocol (July 2012). |
Truven Health AnalyticsTruven Health Analytics achieved accreditation in March 2013 for the process used to produce their content database.
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Royal College of PhysiciansRoyal College of Physicians achieved accreditation in March 2013 for their concise guideline series (cgs): abstracted guidelines produced using the processes described in the Concise Guidelines Series handbook: a series of evidence-based guidelines for clinical management (October 2012).
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Frequently Asked Questions |
Contact us |
Find the answers to the most common questions we receive about accreditation. |
Contact us via email at accreditation@nice.org.uk |
This page was last updated: 10 April 2013