Jonathan talks to Andy Hutchinson about what they call the 'lost' NICE guidelines.
Andy is a principal pharmacist clinical adviser in the medicines optimisation team at NICE. He has a background in hospital and primary care pharmacy, and has a particular interest in education, person-centred care and, especially, shared decision making.
Jonathan worked with Andy for many years, firstly at the National Prescribing Centre where Andy was an NPC trainer then they worked together to develop NPCi, the 'ahead of its time' innovative eLearning platform. Andy has a deep understanding of educational theory and Jonathan considers him to be one of the leading pharmacy educators of his generation.
In this episode of Talking Meds, Jonathan and Andy talk about those NICE guidelines that are highly relevant to pharmaceutical care but which tend to be overlooked, perhaps because they are a few years old, and because the urgent often drives out the important.
They also remind us of the 'boiler plate' text on each piece of NICE guidance emphasising that these are 'guidelines, not tramlines' and individual, person-centred care is fundamental. The only 'mandatory' aspect of NICE guidance is that those technologies approved via a NICE Technology Appraisal (TA) are funded by NHS commissioners.
Links to the NICE Guidelines discussed are:
