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Within this section you'll find information on the guidlines set to improve continence care by NICE and the APPG.

NICE are the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Continence Care aim for better funding of quality continence services and product provision. They also launched a guide for commissioners in the House of Commons written by clinicians.

Last updated: 28/08/2012

New Report Launched - Continence Care Services England 2013 - commissioned by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Continence Care	16/05/2013
Reforms to NHS come into legal force	03/04/2013
Invitation to join NICE Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Advisory Committee	28/03/2013
Government Confirms Introduction of Revised GP Contract	20/03/2013
Final Wave of CCGs Authorised	20/03/2013
CQC Care Update highlights Good Progress But There Are Failings	12/03/2013
Answers to written questions on clinical commissioning groups	06/03/2013
NICE seeks a Chair for Highly Specialised Technologies Evaluation Committee and a Chair for Technology Appraisal Committee	22/02/2013
NICE launches consultation on draft guideline for urinary incontinence in women	13/02/2013
Forthcoming Written Questions on Continence Care	08/02/2013
Technology Appraisals Advisory Committee Meeting	06/02/2013
NICE Seeks Applicants to sit on the Quality Standards Advisory Committees	01/02/2013
NICE are Currently Recruiting for Members to Join a Quality Standards Advisory Committee	01/02/2013
Care Quality Commission's Mental Health Act Report 2011/12	01/02/2013
Baroness Thornton Receives Response to Two Written Questions	30/01/2013
Commons Health Select Committee Publishes Report on NICE	18/01/2013
NICE: Seeking Patient Experts for Appraisal of Mirabegron as a Treatment for OAB	14/01/2013
NICE Quality Standard on the Management of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Men Updated	20/12/2012
NHS Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Group Regulations Issued	20/12/2012
Innovation Health and Wealth - One year on	20/12/2012
GP Contract Proposals Set Out by Department of Health	20/12/2012
Government Publishes Response to "no decision about me, without me" Consultation	20/12/2012
Written Question Tabled by Labour MP Gareth Thomas on Numbers of Specialist Nurses	20/12/2012
NICE Publishes Guidance on Local Formularies	20/12/2012
Consultation on Service Specifications and Clinical Policies	20/12/2012
National Audit Office Publishes Report on Rationing in the NHS	20/12/2012
NHS Commissioning Board Publishes Narrative for Person-Centred and Coordinated Care	20/12/2012
First Wave of Clinical Commissioning Groups Authorised	20/12/2012
Upcoming Lords Debates on Medical Innovation	20/12/2012
NICE Publish Their Updated 2012 Guidelines Manual	14/12/2012
NICE Seeks New Member for its Independent Advisory Committees on the use of Health Technologies	14/12/2012
Please support continence reform by completing this health professional continence survey	12/12/2012
Department of Health Publishes Review of Personal Health Budget Pilots	30/11/2012
Department of Health Publishes Revision of National Framework	29/11/2012
Department of Health Response to MPs Questions on Continence Care	28/11/2012
King's Fund Publishes Mid-Term Assessment of Government's Health Policy	28/11/2012
Care Quality Commission launch 'State of Care' report 2012	23/11/2012
Experienced poor healthcare? The Care Quality Commissions 'How to complain' guide may help you!	08/11/2012
Deadline Extended - Health Professionals Invited to Apply for Two New Positions with NICE	17/08/2012
New NICE Guidelines: Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction in Neurological Disease	08/08/2012
Update on the Health and Social Care Bill	01/12/2011

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