Finding Guidance and Policy

The following websites can provide useful information on guidance and policy:  this may be useful when establishing whether your idea has been flagged as important to the NHS.
NB.  This is not an exhaustive list of where to find clinical guidelines.

Resource Website

Identify research needs
Identifying research questions for the NHS and public health. How they identify questions and what happens to research suggestions.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/partners-and-industry/charities/identify-research-needs.htm

JBI
JBI is a global organisation promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions that improve
health and health service delivery.

https://jbi.global/

James Lind Alliance (JLA)
The JLA facilitates priority setting partnerships to identify and prioritise for research the treatment uncertainties they agree are the most important.

http://www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/ 

National Clinical Guidelines Centre (NCGC)
The NCGC produces evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on behalf of NICE. The guidelines aim to improve the quality of patient care within the NHS in England and Wales.

http://www.rcp.ac.uk/guidelines-policy

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) 
The NIHR commissions and funds NHS, social care and public health research. It also responds to national research priorities.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/our-key-priorities/

NICE guidance
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.

http://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance 

NIHR Evidence
The NIHR Evidence produces summaries of research that have been identified as important to clinicians, patients, and managers. Some have added commentaries and insights to make the findings more relevant to key people. 

https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/  

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
SIGN develops evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland. SIGN guidelines are derived from a systematic review of the scientific literature and are designed as a vehicle for accelerating the translation of new knowledge into action to meet our aim of reducing variations in practice, and improving patient-important outcomes.

http://www.sign.ac.uk

UK Clinical Guidelines
Doctors from Patient.co.uk have collated a directory of clinical guidelines that have been recently published by the NICE, SIGN, and similar reputable organisations.

https://patient.info/search?searchterm=guidelines

 

Acknowledgments

This resource was collated by Christine Keen, RSS Hub Leicester and Partners

Created: February 2019    Last Updated: November 2024