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Purpose
This paper seeks to describe the public health guidance development activity of the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Design/methodology/approach
The paper outlines the origins of the public health guidance development work, the types of guidance in public health which NICE will produce, the methodological approach which will be used, the advisory body structure, the health economics which will inform judgements about cost‐effectiveness, the audiences for the guidance and the approach to health inequalities which will be taken.
Findings
The future recommendations which NICE will make in public health are signalled.
Originality/value
The paper provides a summary of the key processes which will be used in the production of public health guidance.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2006
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