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NICE Talks
NICE Talks is the podcast from UK's National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Our podcast brings the stories behind our NICE's work to improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services through evidence-based guidance. Subscribe on your favouri...
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How NICE is helping to deliver the government's 10 year health plan
In this episode we learn how NICE is helping to deliver the government's 10 year health plan. Our guests are the senior responsible officers looking a...

Treating type 2 diabetes with SGLT-2 inhibitors
In this episode, we discuss recent analysis showing significant disparities in SGLT-2 inhibitor prescriptions for people with type 2 diabetes in Engla...
Innovation in action: Inside NICE's HTA Lab
Our Health Technology Assessment Innovation Laboratory (HTA Lab) was launched in June 2023 to test and develop creative solutions to complex problems...
NICE's prioritisation board: focus on what matters most
NICE's prioritisation board has been in operation for just over 12 months. In this episode we review the first year and learn more about how decisions...
Learn more about our useful and useable maternal and child nutrition guideline
We're joined by health visitor Karen McLean and health psychologist Vivien Swanson, two members of the guideline committee, to discuss the changes mad...
Will robotic-assisted surgery change NHS practice forever?
In this episode we’re going to be learning more about NICE's guidance for robotic assisted surgery.
Our guests are Dr Anastasia Chalkido...
Endometriosis - learn more about NICE's guideline for this chronic condition
To mark endometriosis awareness month this March we discuss the global initiative, Endometriosis Explained, aiming to educate and support those affect...
Navigating the future - AI at NICE
In this episode we’re going to be learning about how NICE is preparing to use artificial intelligence.
Dr Pall Jonsson, programme direct...
NICE's positive recommendations for lung cancer treatments
We're joined by Jules Fielder, who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2021, Dr Jesme Fox, medical director of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Founda...
Learn more about the proposed changes to our routing criteria for highly specialised technologies
In this episode we discuss our consultation on NICE's routing criteria for highly specialised technologies.
Professor Jonathan Benger, o...
Learn more about NICE's updated menopause guideline
In this episode we’re going to be learning about the updated NICE guideline on the identification and management of the menopause.
Our gu...
Learn about the role of NICE's independent advisory committees
In this episode we’re going to be learning about the role of NICE's independent advisory committees. How they operate, who are the members and what fl...
Make your voice heard on a NICE committee
In this episode, we hear from Professor Jonathan Benger, NICE's deputy chief executive and interim director of our Centre for Guidelines. He's joined...
Learn more about NICE's new guideline on identifying and managing adrenal insufficiency
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has, for the first time, published a guideline on the identification and management of adrenal i...
Learn more about the NICE and NHS England MedTech Pathway consultation
We're joined by Mark Chapman, director of NICE's HealthTech programme and Verena Stocker, director of Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Strategy...
25 years of NICE and focusing on what matters most to deliver for the future
In this episode, our guests reflect on 25 years of NICE, how the organisation has developed, the impact its had and how it will change to adapt to the...
Assessing the familial and genetic risk of ovarian cancer
Following the publication of our new guideline, ovarian cancer: identifying and managing familial and genetic risk, the latest episode of NICETalks fo...
Learning more about the NICE Advice service
In this month's podcast, we speak with Jeanette Kusel, director of NICE Advice and Luella Trickett, director of value and access at the Association of...
Highlights of 2023: Our directors look back on a busy year
In this episode, the directors of NICE's guidance producing centres reflect on the highlights of 2023. We hear from Mark Chapman, interim director of...
Our guidance on virtual wards (hospital at home) services
More than 10,000 virtual ward beds will be used by the NHS in England this winter to care for people with an acute respiratory infections.
Updated guidance on stroke rehabilitation
It is estimated that there are around 85,000 strokes every year in England, with over 1 million people currently living with its long-term effects.
Changes to guidance topic selection
We’re proposing changes to how we select topics for guidance production. This is to ensure we focus on what matters most to the health and care system...
Our proportionate approach to technology appraisals
We’re making some changes to how we evaluate medicines to help get new treatments to patients quicker. In this month's podcast, we hear from Jenniffer...
Our world leading work into antimicrobial resistance
On 10 July NHS England published proposals for establishing an antimicrobial products subscription model for products that offer exceptional value to...
Our international partnerships - working collaboratively for the benefit of patients
We speak with Meindert Boysen, NICE's head of international affairs, and Dr Nicole Mittmann, vice president of scientific evidence, methodologies and...
Digital therapies to treat mental health conditions
Following Mental Health Awareness Week, we hear about 4 NICE-approved digital technologies that can help children and young people with mild to modera...
Bowel cancer - warning signs and symptoms
As part of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, we chat with 2 members of our colorectal cancer guideline committee. We're joined by Justin Davies, a consult...
Chief executive Dr Sam Roberts outlines her priorities for NICE
Chief executive Dr Sam Roberts outlines her priorities for NICE by National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Urinary tract infections: How we can help support people and professionals
In this episode we discuss urinary tract infections (UTI's) and the publication of NICE' new quality standard. The guests are: Dr Tessa Lewis, a GP an...
What role does NICE play in patient safety?
In this episode we discuss the role NICE plays in patient safety. The guests are: Professor Kevin Harris, senior responsible office for patient safety...
How NICE is working to reduce health inequalities
Reducing health inequalities is part of NICE’s DNA. We offer evidence-based recommendations to help improve the health of communities.
Th...
New patient decision aid on asthma inhalers and climate change
We speak to Consultant Respiratory Physician Dr Hitasha Rupani, Medicines Consultant Clinical Adviser at NICE Jonathan Underhill and asthma patient Sh...
Self-harm: How can we help and support people?
In September 2022, NICE published its guideline on the assessment, management and preventing recurrence of self-harm. We speak to Professor Nav Kapur...
How to reduce the risk of skin cancer
In this month’s NICE Talks podcast we speak to Dr Gail Allsopp, interim medical director at NICE, and Richard Jackson, patient advocate who was diagno...
A new era for MedTech assessment? Learning more about the NICE Early Value Assessment pilot
On this month's podcast we find out more about the launch of NICE's early value assessment programme in medical technology.
This pilot will loo...
New NICE guideline on social work with adults experiencing complex needs
This month’s NICE Talks podcast focusses on NICE’s new guideline on social work with adults experiencing complex needs. We chat with Rebecca Harringto...
The story behind the first digital therapeutic recommended by NICE
In May 2022, NICE published medical technologies guidance on Sleepio to treat insomnia. It is the first digital therapeutic for treating insomnia reco...
Chief executive Sam Roberts: My ambitious plans for future of NICE
In her first interview with NICE Talks, chief executive Sam Roberts gives her initial thoughts of the organisation, her plans for the next 12 months a...
Integrated Health and Care Services for People Experiencing Homelessness
In this episode we talk about NICE's recently published guideline on integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness....
The Evidence Standards Framework for digital health technologies
In this episode we’re going to be talking about NICE's evidence standards framework for digital health technologies.
Working alongside sy...