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Editorial
. 2008 Jan 12;336(7635):56-7.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39454.496748.80.

Parliamentary review asks NICE to do better still

Joe Collier
Editorial

Parliamentary review asks NICE to do better still

Joe Collier. BMJ. .

Abstract

Out goes the arbitrary funding threshold: in come NICE “directives”

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests. JC was a specialist advisor to the House of Commons health select committee during this inquiry, as he was for the committee’s inquiry into NICE in 2001-2, and its inquiry into the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in 2005. He was also an advisor to the Office of Fair Trading in its 2007 inquiry into the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.

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