The Project Services. 4.1.1. The Contractor shall carry out the Project Services in accordance with Annex 1 and to a quality acceptable to NICE.
The Project Services. 6.1 The Contractor shall provide the Project Services, which shall conform to the Performance Standards and meet all other requirements set out in Schedule 2 and the Project Brief.
The Project Services. The role of the supplier is to source and manage the external expertise required by each advice project in NICE’s Scientific Advice programme. The supplier is expected to have effective project management skills to plan and coordinate the delivery of each task to time and quality, ensuring that the agreed specification for each task is followed appropriately. Specifically, for each advice project the supplier is expected to: identify 3 - 5 appropriate experts (e.g. key opinion leader clinicians, health economists, statisticians, etc) to participate in this project ensure the availability of the experts to work on the project within the timelines required by the programme negotiate and manage all contractual issues with the experts (e.g. terms and conditions, payment) arrange the travel and accommodation for the experts as required be responsible for payment of experts’ expenses comply with NICE’s confidentiality and conflict of interest requirements, ensuring the confidentiality agreement forms are signed and returned by experts provide a breakdown of costs on a project by project basis. participate in a weekly teleconference meeting with NICE staff Attend quarterly contract monitoring meetings with staff of the Scientific Advice Programme Experts will be expected to: review the written information supplied by the company about their product. participate in teleconferences with the NICE technical team to discuss the information attend a face-to-face meeting with NICE staff and client company representatives in London or Manchester on 8 – 10 weeks’ notice contribute to the discussion of key issues at the face-to-face meeting comment on and contribute to the draft NICE advice report to the company comply with NICE’s confidentiality and conflict of interest requirements A clear, consistent and unbiased process must be used to source the experts. Experts may be sourced externally or from within the supplier’s own organisation. In the latter case the supplier must clearly demonstrate that the experts are qualified and that any conflicts of interest are managed in accordance with NICE’s policy. At the beginning of each project the supplier will receive an initial project specification from NICE. Once it has been confirmed that the project will proceed, the supplier will receive a confirmed project specification from NICE. The specification document (which includes both the initial and the confirmed specification) follows at the end of this annex. The supplier mu...
The Project Services. Introduction The Centre for Public Health Excellence (CPHE) at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the Department of Health to develop public health programme guidance on the prevention of type 2 diabetes among adults in high risk groups. This referral has been divided into two separate pieces of guidance, the first of which was published in May 2011. This contract relates to the field testing of the second piece of guidance: ‘Preventing type 2 diabetes among high risk individuals and groups’ Draft guidance is currently being produced by the Programme Development Group (PDG) and NICE now wishes to test this guidance with health and other professionals who will be involved in its implementation. The findings from the fieldwork will be considered by the PDG at a meeting in February 2012. The findings will inform the development of the final guidance which is expected to be published in May 2012.
The Project Services. 2.1 The Project Services provide a choice of 3 levels of service: :
The Project Services. 4.1.1. Project Services shall be delivered by Queen’s University Belfast, with sub-contracting arrangements with the Cochrane Editorial Unit.
The Project Services. COCHRANE QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY TOPICS NICE has developed the Cochrane Quality and Productivity topics to help the NHS identify practices that could be significantly reduced or stopped completely, releasing cash and/or resources without negatively affecting the quality of NHS care. Each topic has been derived from a Cochrane systematic review that has concluded that the evidence shows that the practice is harmful or ineffective and should not be used, or that there is insufficient evidence to support widespread use of the practice. EYES ON EVIDENCE NICE also produces ‘Eyes on Evidence’, a free monthly e-bulletin publication which covers interesting new evidence with an explanation about what it means for current practice; it has a generalist audience covering: Primary care medicine and nursing Common and important conditions treated in the acute care setting Public Health practice in the domains of health protection, healthcare management and the broad spectrum of health improvement/ health promotion practice The interface between health and social care services. The allied health professions The Cochrane Implications for Practice Service will identify those Cochrane systematic reviews which outline interesting new evidence and which could be utilised within the Eyes on Evidence e-bulletin.
