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Date: October
15, 2004 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 to 14:00
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of
Medicine Building
Abstract:
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is part of
the UK National Health Service (NHS). It is an independent organization
responsible for providing national guidance on treatments and care
for people using the NHS in England and Wales. The guidance is aimed
at healthcare professionals, patients and their carers to help them
make decisions about treatment and healthcare.
NICE guidance is developed using the expertise of the NHS and wider
healthcare community including NHS staff, healthcare professionals,
patients and carers, industry and the academic community.
Currently NICE produces guidance in three areas of health:
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Technology appraisals
- guidance on the use of new and existing medicines and treatments
within the NHS in England and Wales.
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Clinical guidelines
- guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with
specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and
Wales.
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Interventional
procedures - guidance on whether interventional procedures used
for diagnosis or treatment are safe enough and work well enough
for routine use in England, Wales and Scotland.
Bio-sketch:
John Brazier is Professor
of Health Economics in the section of Health economics and Decision
Science at the School of Health and Related Research at the University
of Sheffield. He has worked in the area of economic evaluation of
health care for nearly 20 years and currently he is involved in
numerous economic evaluations alongside clinical trials and decision
analytic models. His main methodological interests have been in
the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation
where he has published widely. He has served on the NICE Appraisal
Committee and currently contributed to the production of Research
Assessment Reports for NICE.
Registration:
For registration, please call Ms Maggie Cheuk at 2819-2841 or email
mhrn@hkusua.hku.hk
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