Redesigning Health Care in ECA : Some Lessons from the UK

 The UK Government’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), set up in 1999 to provide national guidance on the promotion of good health and prevention and treatment of ill health, offers some lessons in this respect. In addition to setting national quality standards, NICE clinical guidelines are used to determine how payments are made to general practitioners and funds allocated for hospital care in the National Health Service (NHS).