Who are NICE?
NICE was established as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on 1 April 1999 by the Secretary of State for Health.
Their original aim was to ensure that the most clinically and cost effective drugs and treatments were made available widely on the NHS in England and Wales.
The government believed that creating NICE could help to speed up the pace at which good value treatments were used across the NHS, in turn promoting and encouraging successful innovation on the part of clinicians, pharmaceutical companies and the medical devices industry.
NICE has established a worldwide reputation for producing authoritative, evidence-based advice and guidelines. Over the years, NICE’s remit has been expanded by 3 different governments.
In December 2009 they were certified as a quality provider of health and social care information by The Information Standard – a certification scheme for health and social care information aimed at the public.
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