Published 29 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b344
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b344

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NICE at 10

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NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) is 10 years old. Controversial from its inception and constantly in the public eye, NICE’s survival alone is surely something to celebrate. A search on bmj.com for the past 10 years finds the institute mentioned in three articles a week on average. Looking back over this coverage, my sense is that the BMJ has shown support for NICE by being a critical friend. This week we continue that tradition with a cluster of articles challenging NICE on several fronts, as well as a podcast interview with its chief executive Andrew Dillon (http://podcasts.bmj.com/bmj). NICE’s chairman Michael Rawlins has been shortlisted for the BMJ Group’s lifetime achievement award (doi:10.1136/bmj.b275). You can vote for the winner on bmj.com.

So what are some of the challenges facing NICE? One is its arbitrary threshold for deciding which drugs are cost effective . . . [Full text of this article]

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