NICE prostate cancer quality standards

Abstract

uro.sagepub.com 'postcode lottery' of care in the NHS and to ensure equal access to treatment irrespective of where someone lived. In 2005, NICE merged with the Health Development Agency and started developing public health guidelines. It changed its name to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. The Health and Social Care Bill 2012 reestablished NICE as a non-departmental public body with an emphasis on the development of outcomes at a local and national level by creating clinical and public health guidelines as well as quality standards. NICE currently only provides guidance for the NHS in England and Wales. NICE quality standards The NICE quality standards programme was established in 2009. Quality standards are 'a comprehensive set of recommendations for a particular disease or condition, particular