NICE quality standard - stroke
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) quality standards are a set of specific, concise statements that act as markers of high-quality, cost-effective patient care, covering the treatment and prevention of different diseases and conditions.
Quality standards enable:
- Health and social care professionals to make decisions about care based on the latest evidence and best practice
- Patients to understand what service they can expect from their health and social care providers
- NHS Trusts to quickly and easily examine the clinical performance of their organisation and assess the standards of care they provide
- Commissioners to be confident that the services they are providing are high quality and cost effective
The stroke quality standard can be accessed on the NICE website.
SCIE has also worked in collaboration with NICE on quality standard on dementia.
Further quality standards are in development and will be published during 2010/11. See the Quality standards in development section for more details.
