NICE Clinical Guidance

NICE Clinical Guidance lets you look up NICE guidelines, quality standards and technology appraisals from inside the patient record, and read the recommendation in the consultation panel rather than in another tab.

Recommendations are served verbatim from Jump's licensed NICE syndication feed. Nothing is summarised or paraphrased, and every extract carries its NICE reference and a link back to the source.

Turning it on

You need the Settings: manage permission.

1. Go to Apps
2. Open NICE Clinical Guidance
3. Switch it on

There is nothing else to set up. There is no API key to enter and no NICE account to create - Jump holds the syndication licence for you, so the app has no settings beyond on and off.

Using it in a consultation

1. Start or open a consultation
2. Open the Reference panel
3. NICE results appear alongside patient.info leaflets

The panel is already searching for the problem you are documenting, so guidance for it is usually on screen before you type anything.

• If you are documenting more than one problem, each one appears as a chip. Click a chip to reground the search on that problem.
• Type anything into the search box to look up something else.
• Use the source filter to show All, just patient.info, or just NICE.

Each NICE result shows its title, its reference (for example NG28), the programme it belongs to, and when it was last reviewed.

Reading a recommendation

Click a NICE result and it opens in the panel itself, with your note still beside it.

• The chapter's recommendations are shown as NICE published them.
• The heading shows the title, the reference and the programme.
• View on NICE at the foot opens the guideline on nice.org.uk in a new tab.
• Use the back arrow to return to your search results.

Your consultation is untouched while you read. Nothing from the guidance is copied into the note - if you want to record something from it, write it in the note yourself.

When guidance cannot be shown

Jump never shows you a partial or invented card. If the NICE feed is unreachable, or a chapter has no readable content, the panel gives you a link out to that guideline on nice.org.uk instead. An empty search says so plainly rather than showing an unrelated result.

Turning it off

Go to Apps, open NICE Clinical Guidance and switch it off. The Reference panel goes back to linking out to NICE, and patient.info is unaffected.

Important: NICE guidance is a reference, not a decision. It is shown to you verbatim so you can read it in context, but the clinical decision, and the record of it, remain yours. If anything looks out of date, use View on NICE to check the guideline at source.