NICE expanding to include social care

From April 2013, the role of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will expand to include social care with the Department of Health agreeing an initial list of joint NHS/social care quality standard topics for NICE to start working on.

The Department of Health will be consulting shortly on what a full set of NICE quality standards and guidance should include in order to improve the quality of social care. Care providers will be able to use these as tools to help improve their services.

For further information visit www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/09/nice-social-care/.