NICE Shared Decision Making Guideline - Draft for Consultation, December 2020

AIMS has submitted comments on the draft NICE Shared decision making Guideline.

You can read our comments here

The details of the consultation on the draft guidelines can be found here

The new guideline was published in June 2021 and is available on the NICE website here.

NICE responses to all stakeholder comments can be found here


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