Do you have a passion for quality improvement in health and social care services?

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.

They are currently looking for someone with lived experience (people who have been patients, parents, unpaid carers, people who use health and care services or community members) and their advocates (currently referred to as ‘lay members’ at NICE) to join the committee who develop NICE’s quality standards.

The person who is right for the role will have a real passion for quality improvement across health, public health and social care services. It would also be ideal if you could show that they have knowledge or experience of *how* to drive up the quality of services through a range of different approaches, for example, through service audits, improvement and action plans, or a programme of training or education for practitioners – but this is not essential.

As a standing lay member on a NICE committee, you won’t have personal knowledge or experience of every topic this committee looks at, but should have a broad understanding of the issues important to patients and their families or unpaid carers. You will be expected to research topics they are not familiar with so that you can gain this insight and highlight issues of importance for people and communities within the topic area.

Recruitment is open until 23.59pm on Sunday 9 February 2025.

You can find out more detail on the role, who NICE are looking for and the benefits on the NICE website.