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Quality standards: process guide

NICE process and methods [PMG43] Published: 30 October 2012 Last updated: 26 July 2024

  • Process
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  • History
  • Overview
  • Introduction
  • 1 The NICE Quality Standards Programme
  • 2 Who is involved in developing quality standards?
  • 3 Process for developing quality standards
  • 4 Stakeholder involvement
  • 5 Equality
  • 6 Transparency
  • 7 Links with other NICE programmes
  • 8 Updating this process guide
  • 9 Further information
  • 10 Complaints
  • Appendix: Interim process statement for a more proportionate approach to quality standard development
  • Update information
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This guide describes the process NICE uses to develop NICE quality standards.  

Last reviewed: 26 July 2024

We published the interim process statement for a more proportionate approach to quality standard development, which describes the interim process changes that we will use over the next 24 months to support proportionate approaches to the development and maintenance of NICE quality standards


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