The relevance of NICE to dentistry -what can it do for me?

Abstract

On 1 April 2013, NICE became a non-departmental public body in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2012. In addition to providing guidance for the NHS and public health communities, the organisation now has responsibility for developing quality standards and guidance for social care in England. To reflect these changes NICE has been renamed the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. There can be few colleagues who have not heard about NICE from one source or another. It is often in the national news for the drugs it approves or does not approve for use in the NHS and more recently there has been much debate in the British Dental Journal on the current NICE guideline on wisdom teeth. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.