What do participants need to do: Apply to join the NICE Prioritisation Board for 1 year. This involves attending meetings, reading meeting papers and commenting on documents between meetings.
How long will it take? Meetings take place every 2 weeks and last for 2 hours. Members will be expected to read the meeting papers in advance, which takes up to 2 hours.
Will participants get paid? Yes - £150 for each meeting.
Is this for research, policy or services? Services
Who can take part? People with an understanding of issues important to patients, people using services, unpaid carers, communities and the public.
Deadline: 15 June 2025
Location: Online
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces guidance on the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease and ill health, and provide social care support.
It's important that they prioritise those areas of guidance development and delivery that will have greatest impact on the health and care system. To help them do this, in 2024 they set up the NICE Prioritisation Board to decide whether to select topics for guidance development. For more information, including videos explaining NICE’s approach to prioritising topics, please visit their prioritising our guidance topics webpage.
They are currently recruiting 2 new lay members to join the board to bring a perspective of patients, people who use services, and carers to selection and routing of topics.
NICE prioritisation board lay member recruitment
They have developed a short video to explain the role of the prioritisation board and the role of the lay member.
- Skills & experience needed: NICE are looking for 2 people to join the board to bring a perspective of patients, people who use services, and carers to selection and routing of topics. They won’t have personal knowledge or experience of every topic the committee looks at, but they should have a broad understanding of the issues important to patients and their families or unpaid carers.
- Time commitment: Meetings take place every 2 weeks and last for 2 hours. Members will be expected to read the meeting papers in advance, which takes up to 2 hours.
- Key dates: The closing date is 15 June 2025. Interviews will take place on Friday 27 June, and the first meeting will take place 21 July, 10-12pm.
- Location: Meetings will be online via web conferencing software.
- Payment: Members will receive £150 for each meeting.
- How to apply: Please visit their recruitment page for the full recruitment documents and the online application. For further details please contact Mark Rasburn, mark.rasburn@nice.org.uk
