Opportunity to join NICE’s committee – open until 21 May 2025
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are currently looking for people with lived experience, or their loved ones and unpaid carers, as well as their advocates to join the committee developing indicators. These indicators measure outcomes that reflect quality of care. They also look at processes that are linked by evidence to improved outcomes. Many of the indicators developed focus on primary care, also known as care provided or overseen by someone’s local general practitioner (GP), but some are also relevant across the wider health and social care systems too.
NICE are looking for one person with a range of lived experience across health, public health and social care, together with an understanding of quality improvement from the perspective of people using these services, to join their NICE indicator advisory committee. They will work together with one other standing lived experience committee member, and their involvement will be vital in ensuring that NICE hear and shape their guidance in line with the views, experiences and needs of those who are most directly impacted by NICE’s work.
As a standing lay member on a NICE committee, they won’t have personal knowledge or experience of every topic this committee looks at, but they should have a broad understanding of the issues important to patients and their families or unpaid carers. They will be expected to research topics they are not familiar with so that they can gain this insight and highlight issues of importance for people and communities within the topic area.
The appointed lived experience member will need to be able to contribute effectively in a formal committee setting. Our lived experience members are paid a fee to attend meetings in recognition of their valuable expertise and knowledge (£300 for a full day meeting, £150 for a half day meeting), and we also cover travel and other expenses.
Further information: recruitment advert.
Recruitment is open until 11.59pm on Wednesday 21 May 2025.