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NHS Evidence awards first accrediations
05 November 2009
News > Evaluating the quality of health information
NHS Evidence has announced the first organisations to be accredited under its new scheme for guideline developers. NHS Evidence is a Department of Health project introduced earlier this year to facilitate access to reliable health and social care information in the UK.
The NHS Evidence accreditation scheme aims to make reliable sources of guidance easily recognisable to doctors who are trying to decide which guidelines to use in clinical practice. It awards an accreditation mark to guidance producers who comply with a defined set of criteria, reflecting that their guidance is robust.
Three organisations were accredited this week:
- the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence centre for health technology evaluation
- the NICE centre for clinical practice (CCP)
- the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), which develops guidelines for the NHS in Scotland
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