Wales is the first UK nation to vaccinate more than 20% of its population and is one of the first countries in the world to do so. Huge congratulations to our amazing vaccination teams. Diolch o galon.

NICE has a suite of guidance and products to support the health and social care system as it continues to respond to the pandemic. You can find guidance, resources and other information that may help you all in one place on the NICE website: bit.ly/NICE-Covid19f

We’re embarking on a new era at NICE by launching our 5-year strategy, join us 19 April, 11am to hear how we’re planning to address the opportunities and challenges of our changing health and care landscape. Register for the launch event: bit.ly/NICE5yrStrategy #NICE5YS

Data from the Office for Life Sciences shows that last year the average time from a cancer treatment getting its licence to our draft recommendations was less than 1 month. It also shows we recommended over 90% of the treatments we looked at: bit.ly/3jPsoU2

The consultation on our proposals for changes to the processes we use to develop guidance on medicines, medical devices, diagnostics and digital health technologies, closes on 15 April. Read the full story, and find out how to comment, here: bit.ly/3qOa4xd

We collaborate internationally to spread good practice on patient and public involvement. Check out the latest #GINtoolkit advice for involving people in health and care guidelines. Watch this space for a future digital version. See updated #GINtoolkit - g-i-n.net/library/tools

Join us on 19 April, 11am as we launch our new 5-year strategy outlining our plans to make our work more responsive and dynamic. Find out more and register: bit.ly/NICE5yrStrategy #NICE5yearstrategy #NICE5YS

NICE has a suite of guidance and products to support the health and social care system as it continues to respond to the pandemic. You can find guidance, resources and other information that may help you all in one place on the NICE website: bit.ly/NICE-Covid19t

NICE has published final guidance on Tecartus for treating relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. NHS patients have become among the first in Europe to access this revolutionary therapy. Find out more: bit.ly/3knPMZ3

A second call for abstracts for the HTAi 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting is now open, visit bit.ly/3gWSjGr to submit your abstract and be part of the discussion about the future of health technology assessment! Healthcare Improvement Scotland All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre HTAi #HTAi2021VirtualAM

We're looking for members to join the multiple obstetric guideline committee for the update of our intrapartum care for healthy women and babies. Find out more and apply by 5pm Monday 15 March: bit.ly/3toTS7i

Today we've published final draft guidance which recommends Anakinra for treating active Stills disease. Find out more about this decision: bit.ly/2O9q7Yf

A brand new episode of the NICE Talks podcast has dropped today. This month we look at the role of patient representatives and organisations in NICE's work. You can listen by downloading or streaming wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/nicetalks

Thousands of patients are to have routine access to another potentially life-extending NICE-approved drug combination for some people with advanced breast cancer. Find out more: bit.ly/3bQJ2zc

Today marks my last working day before maternity leave! I'm pleased that maternity cover will be provided from from March 15th. If you're a regular contact & I haven't yet been in touch with handover details, please let me know. Wishing you all a happy & healthy remainder to 2021

This is a great article celebrating the use of NICE's Social Care guidance to inform both practice & policy in Wales. Please share and get in touch if you'd like to know more or think I might be able to support your team Neath Port Talbot Council Welsh Government Health and Social Care Social Care Wales BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Our new web resource aims to support the health and care system with improving productivity. Explore the resource here⬇️ nice.org.uk/productivity?u…

Great to be back hosting the Welsh NICE Health Network meeting this morning, hearing about how our mental wellbeing at work guideline NG212 is helping NHS staff to feel empowered, valued and supported in Betsi Cadwaladr UHB - nice.org.uk/guidance/ng212

Fantastic to see Rachel Scourfield explain how NICE is being used to support evidence-based practice in social care in Wales and opening new doors to her service users Social Care Wales Neath Port Talbot Council Welsh Government Health and Social Care

A great day at the #AMaT2025 conference, celebrating how teams are using data and systems to improve the management of NICE guidance, clinical audits, QI and patient care #DataDriven #celebrateimpact