Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, NICE, discusses how they are working to help patients and clinicians make choices about health care.

1. Generating the right kind of clinical evidence and guidance Professor Peter Littlejohns Clinical and Public Health Director

2. Evaluating the evidence Judgements to be made Evidence Research Evidence Patient Experience Clinical Practice

6. NICE approach has 4 steps to assessing evidence Step 1: Define the clinical or public health question Step 2: Identify the evidence Step 3: Synthesise and assess the body of evidence Step 4: Issue the recommendations

7. A short history of NICE’s products QOF Public health Interventional Procedures Clinical guidelines Quality standards

8. NICE range of products aimed at reducing variation and saving money All NICE guidance Commissioning guides Costing tools ‘ Do not do’ database Referral database NHS Evidence QIPP page

10. BMJ 2011; 343:d4519 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d4519 (Published 27 July 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011; 343:d4519

12. Summary of the process from Cochrane review to QIPP topic

14. Results: Reasons for rejecting reviews