Consultation responses

NICE is holding a consultation on a draft review proposal to consider whether the guidance entitled ‘Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation in primary care and other settings’ should be updated. The consultation is due to begin on Monday 29^th April 2013, and will last for 2 weeks, with stakeholder comment forms to be submitted to NICE by Friday 10th May 2013. If you would like to be involved in commenting on this consultation, please contact the UKSBM general secretary by Monday 29th April 2013.

for more information, see the NICE page on brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation.

The draft scope and the stakeholder comments form for NICE Public Health Guidance on delaying the onset of disability, frailty and dementia in later life are now online. The consultation on this draft scope will take place between 21^st March 2013 – 18^th April 2013. If you would like to contribute to producing a response on behalf of the UKSBM, please get in touch with Jean Adams by 10 April 2013.

Consultation on the Physical activity – exercise referral schemes to promote physical activity (partial update of PH2) draft scope closes at 5pm on 13th March 2013. If you would like to submit or contribute comments to this draft scope on behalf of the UKSBM, please get in touch with the general secretary by end of day Friday 8 March 2013.

The Centre for Public Health Excellence (CPHE) at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is developing programme guidance on lifestyle weight management services for adults. The guidance will provide recommendations for good practice, based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness. It is aimed at commissioners, health professionals and providers of lifestyle weight management services. It will also be of interest to managers in local authorities, overweight and obese adults and other members of the public (see scope of work).

NICE has commissioned evidence reviews that will address the key questions outlined in the final scope. However, they are aware that there are gaps in the published literature. NICE is therefore seeking more detailed information about the current provision of lifestyle weight management services for adults in England (particularly services provided by commercial companies or social enterprises).  The guidance is being developed by a Programme Development Group (PDG) which is a multi-disciplinary group consisting of academics, practitioners and community members. The PDG will make recommendations for practice based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness.   However there are various practical and process issues the PDG would like to consider which are unlikely to have been captured by reviews of the evidence. 
 
For this reason, the NICE team is writing to stakeholders to invite the providers of lifestyle weight management services for adults to contribute to an information gathering exercise to help the PDG address a number of questions listed in this document (.doc, 42kb). Responses should be returned by 25th February. 
 
Your responses to these questions will be very helpful in informing the development of the guidance.
 
Participants should note the following:
• The questions are particularly aimed at commercial providers or social enterprises. 
• Responses to questions should be submitted by 25th February 2013 to Overweightandobeseadults@nice.nhs.uk.
• This process relates to the guidance in development on weight management services for adults. It does not relate to the guidance in development on weight management services for children and young people. 
• NICE has also issued a call for evidence which closed on the 1st February (see ) .

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is updating its public health guidance on Needle and syringe programmes: providing people who inject drugs with injecting equipment’. NICE are interested in identifying studies that have been published since 1990 or any ongoing research or evaluation that is being conducted that relates the provision of needle/syringe services to young people aged under 18 years.

For more information, please see the NICE webpage.

If you would like to lead or contribute to a response on behalf of the UKSBM, please contact the UKSBM General Secretary

before end of day on the 1st of February 2013. The deadline for sending comments to NICE is 5pm on Friday 8th February 2013.

NICE is conducting an update on its guidance for ‘Physical Activity – brief advice for adults in primary care’ and request stakeholder comments by 23 January 2013. For additional information including the draft guidance and comments form, please see the NICE webpage.