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From this page, you can find out more about each type of NICE guidance and how it can be used. </p> <div class="grid"> <div data-g="12"> <div class="grid grid--loose"> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-guidelines">Guidelines</a></h2> <p>Our guidelines make evidence-based recommendations on a wide range of topics. They <span>help health and social care professionals to prevent ill health, promote good health and improve the quality of care and services.</span></p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-technology-appraisal-guidance">Technology appraisals guidance</a></h2> <p>This guidance assesses the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies, such as new medicines, procedures, devices and diagnostic agents.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-medical-technologies-guidance">Medical technologies guidance</a></h2> <p>This guidance evaluates new, innovative medical devices and diagnostics. It looks at medical technologies that deliver treatment, give greater independence to patients, and detect or monitor medical conditions.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-diagnostics-guidance">Diagnostics guidance</a></h2> <p><span>This guidance evaluates new, innovative diagnostic technologies. It includes all types of measurements and tests that are used to evaluate a patient's condition.</span></p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-interventional-procedures-guidance">Interventional procedures guidance</a></h2> <p>This guidance recommends whether interventional procedures - such as laser treatments for eye problems or deep brain stimulation for chronic pain - are effective and safe enough for use in the NHS.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/About/What-we-do/Our-Programmes/NICE-guidance/NICE-highly-specialised-technologies-guidance">Highly specialised technologies guidance</a></h2> <p>This guidance contains recommendations on the use of new and existing highly specialised medicines and treatments.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/about/what-we-do/eva-for-medtech">Health technology evaluation guidance, including early value assessment (EVA)</a></h2> <p>This guidance reviews evidence to support adoption of health technologies in the NHS.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/about/what-we-do/late-stage-assessment-for-medtech">Late stage assessment</a></h2> <p>We've developed a late-stage assessment (LSA) approach to evaluate those categories of technologies that are already in widespread use within the NHS.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h2 class="h3"><a href="/about/what-we-do/bringing-our-guidance-together-by-topic">Bringing our guidance together by topic</a></h2> <p>We’re bringing our guidance together by topic, so that it’s all in one place, clearer to understand and easier to access.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h3><a href="/about/what-we-do/prioritising-our-guidance-topics">Prioritising our guidance topics</a></h3> <p>We need to prioritise areas of guidance development and delivery that will have the greatest impact on the health and care system. To do this we're developing a new centralised approach.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h3><a href="/about/what-we-do/forward-view---our-priority-topics">Forward view - our priority topics</a></h3> <p>Through our forward view, we will highlight the topics we are focusing on, and that matter most to you in the health and care system.</p> </div> <div data-g="12 md:4"> <h3><a href="/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/modular-updates">Modular updates</a></h3> <p>A modular update is a review of methods and/or processes informing NICE’s guidance, that may result in an update to our manuals.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </main>  <script async="" src="https://cdn.nice.org.uk/niceorg/js/app.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  <script src="https://cdn.nice.org.uk/V2/Scripts/twitter.bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://cdn.nice.org.uk/V2/Scripts/NICE.bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/Modules/Orchard.Resources/scripts/history.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="//cdn.nice.org.uk/V3/Scripts/nice/NICE.EventTracking.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/Themes/NICE.Bootstrap/scripts/niceorg/NICE.TopScroll.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="/Themes/NICE.Bootstrap/scripts/foot.combined-v1.10.9325.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script> var global_nav_config = { service: "", header: { skipLinkId: "content-start", search: { url: "/search", autocomplete: "/autocomplete?ajax=ajax", query: "", onSearching: window.globalNavSearchingHandler || null }, auth: { environment: "live" }, cookie: false }, footer: true }; </script> <script src="https://cdn.nice.org.uk/global-nav/global-nav.min.js" defer></script> <script src="//cdn.nice.org.uk/cookie-banner/cookie-banner.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ajaxSend(function (event, jqxhr, settings) { if (settings.url.indexOf("?") >= 0) { settings.url = settings.url + "&ajax=ajax"; } else { settings.url = settings.url + "?ajax=ajax"; } }) if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) { $('body').addClass('touch-screen-device'); } else { $('body').addClass('non-touch-screen-device'); } </script> <div id="global-nav-footer"></div> </body> </html>

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