Title:

NICE Issues a National Cost-Impact Report and Costing Template for Implementing the Clinical Guideline on Depression in Children and Young People

Date:

28th October 2005

Author:

Susan Wileman Medicines Information Technician

 

Source – Druginfozone -  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued a report which looks at the cost impact of implementing the NICE guideline ‘Depression in children and young people: Identification and management in primary, community and secondary care’ in England.
Accompanying this report, NICE has also issued a template that enables organisations such as primary care trusts (PCTs) to estimate the impact locally, and replace variables with ones that depict the current local position. The costing template is designed to assist those assessing the resource impact of the guideline at a local level

For more information go to; http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=276609

Prepared by Susan Wileman Medicines Information Technician

Date of Preparation: 28th October 2005