NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.

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October 2011 The scope of the NICE stable angina quality standard has been published and is available on the NICE website:

Future dates: consultation on the draft quality standard will take place from Thursday 23^rd February to Thursday 22^nd March 2012.

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BCS report on Coronary Care Units (Acute Cardiac Care) released.

In 2010, BCS set up a Working Group to look at Acute Cardiac Care in the UK and the role of Coronary Care Units, chaired by Dr David Walker. The Working Group has now completed its work and released their report, including recommendations for future. The Executive Summary follows. To download the full report, click here. 

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The Stable angina guideline has now published and can be found at the webpage below.

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The NICE chronic heart failure quality standard are published on the NICE website.  

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The update of NICE’s Hypertension guideline has published August 2011. The various versions of the guideline can be found on the webpage below:

 http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG127

 

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February 2012 Update on Venous Thrombosis

New information is available on this press release. Please click here