The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is acknowledged as a world leader in its field, yet the prevailing media image of NICE is as a controversial mechanism for denying patients expensive new drugs. Teresa Poole looks at how NICE appraises new and existing drugs through clinical and ...
As yet few people working in the health service are aware of the scale of the tidal wave of new medical technology now breaking over the NHS. While these technologies offer startling improvements in medical information and therapeutic technique, they are also costly. What they accomplish for the patient in ...