Nice At 25 - A Quarter-Century of Evidence, Values, and Innovation in Health

Setting standards for the delivery of healthcare, issuing guidance on public health, and assessing and making recommendations on health technologies, NICE has attracted widespread international attention, emulation, and comment.

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Why NICE and why the book?
2 NICE and resource allocation in the NHS: paradise lost?
3 Understanding the survival of NICE through a political science lens
4 NICE’s paradigm of public practical reasoning
5 Innovation, values and NICE’s changing societal role
6 Do NICE’s HTA processes still lead to net improvements in NHS services?
7 Public Health at NICE: Methods, politics and policy
8 Public involvement at NICE: Evolution, not revolution
9 NICE and the law: Judicial oversight, juridification and legitimacy?
10 Enhancing the value of public spending on health technology around the world
11 Conclusion: NICE from the past into the future

About the author

Peter Littlejohns is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at King’s College London, and the founding Clinical and Public Health Director of NICE. He has led on a number of international research programmes addressing ways of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of health services through fair prioritisation policies.
Keith Syrett is Professor of Health Law and Policy and Director of the Centre for Health, Law, and Society in the School of Law, University of Bristol, UK. He has written extensively on the legal regulation of resource allocation in healthcare, health technology assessment, and public health law.

Summary

Setting standards for the delivery of healthcare, issuing guidance on public health, and assessing and making recommendations on health technologies, NICE has attracted widespread international attention, emulation, and comment.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Syrett Littlejohns
• Assisted by: Peter Littlejohns (Editor), Littlejohns Peter (Editor), Keith Syrett (Editor), Syrett Keith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032248936
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224893-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Politics & government, Politics and government, Health systems & services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Health systems and services, Assessment;NICE;Health;Technology