Clinician overview

Clinical guidance for day-to-day practice

Access UK clinical guidance in forms that support day-to-day clinical decisions — including comparisons, thresholds, and practical interpretation of NICE and specialty guidance.

Guideline comparisons & thresholds

Side-by-side NICE and specialty recommendations with decision thresholds for faster clinical judgement.

Guidance in clinical practice

Practical views of UK guidance focused on application in clinic, ward, or on-call settings.

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Core clinician hubs

Foundational guidance and practical examples for everyday use.

Clinician topics

Browse by role, setting, or condition

Focused hubs for primary care, conditions, and decision support.

Training

NICE guidance training

Structured guidance walkthroughs for trainees and rotating teams.

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Supporting hubs

Jump into comparisons, resources, and medico-legal hubs.

Clinical risk & reality

Clinical risk in everyday guideline use

Short reads on where guideline use fails under time pressure — highlighting risks, behaviours, and safety gaps that matter on shift.

How clinicians waste 8 minutes per consultation searching guidelines

The hidden cost of guideline hopping across PDFs, websites, and intranets—and how a unified search fixes it.

NICE PDFs Are Not Fit for Clinical Use

Why static guidance fails at the bedside and how to prevent the safety drift it creates.

Why “Just Check NICE” Is Not a Safe Instruction

The gap between guidance access and bedside reality.

Silent Updates: The Most Dangerous Kind of Guideline Change

Why unseen surveillance updates are a safety risk and how to surface them.

Thresholds Change More Often Than Policies Do

Referral and prescribing numbers drift faster than local documents do.

How Often NICE Guidance Really Changes (Data)

Data on update frequency and why change visibility is the safety gap.

Learn about UK guidelines

Foundational explainers for clinicians on what guidelines are and how they’re written.

Clinical judgment, consent, and defensibility

Documented decisions when NICE is not the best option

Calm, clinician-owned reads on exercising judgement, running good consent, and writing notes that make deliberate deviation clear and defensible.

When Deviating From NICE Is the Safer Option

Clinical judgement and structured documentation that make a tailored plan safer than the guideline default.

NICE Compliance Does Not Equal Valid Consent

Applying Montgomery, elevating consent quality, and recording the conversation beyond a checklist tick.

NICE Is Not the Law — But It Still Matters

Practical framing for clinicians: how guidance fits into accountable, everyday decision-making.

How NICE Guidance Is Actually Used in Negligence Cases

What gets scrutinised when things go wrong—and how to show your decisions were deliberate and documented.