canonical guidance view
Use the current, structured version as the baseline.
Clinical Negligence Hub
Hubs
NICE is guidance, not a shield. Risk lives in versions, deviation, and documentation.
Claims look for current guidance, documented reasoning, and consent — not “we followed a PDF”.
Hub index of guides, controls, and links — not a single article.
Version traceability
Documented decisions
Consent clarity
Medico-legal failure modes
- Outdated version used because surveillance updates were missed.
- Unexplained deviation from NICE or local policy.
- Local policy lagging behind national guidance.
- Threshold drift (referral / prescribing) with no timestamped rationale.
- Consent documented as “per NICE” without options and risks.
Controls that reduce exposure
change log
Show what changed and when, including surveillance notes.
audit-safe standards
Versioned standards that do not drift mid-cycle.
threshold look-up
Current referral and prescribing numbers with timestamps.
local vs national alignment
See divergence between Trust policy and national guidance.
Task indexes (where to verify)
Evidence and lived examples
- NICE Is Not the Law — But It Still Matters
- How NICE Guidance Is Actually Used in Negligence Cases
- Following NICE Does Not Automatically Protect You
- Outdated NICE Guidance Is a Negligence Risk
- Which Version of NICE Actually Matters Medico-Legally
- How Silent NICE Updates Create Legal Exposure
- When Deviating From NICE Is the Safer Option
- Documenting a NICE Deviation in Three Lines
- Thresholds Are Where Negligence Claims Actually Live
- When Local Policies Lag Behind NICE
- NICE Compliance Does Not Equal Valid Consent
- Legal Risk Is an Information Problem
Related system capabilities
Safety & assurance
Structured, cited guidance with explicit boundaries on use to support defensibility.
Audit traceability
Version history, change logs, and activity records used in incident and claim review.
Information governance
Provenance, update cadence, and distribution controls to evidence data integrity.
What defensibility looks like
Version badge
Guideline ID, date, and source link on every recommendation.
Decision card
Threshold applied, rationale, timestamp, and who decided.
Deviation note
Why NICE didn’t fit, alternative standard used, options/risks discussed.
If you need the current version and change history visible, use the canonical guidance view and change log.