Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2018
Depression in adults: campaigners and doctors demand full revision of NICE guidance
20 June 2018 - A coalition of mental health organisations and individual clinicians has described the latest draft guidelines on adult depression by NICE as misleading, invalid, and not fit for purpose, saying that they could harm patients.
Fourteen organisations including the Royal College of Psychiatrists and six leading doctors including Simon Wessely, former president of the college, and Clare Gerada, former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, have signed a position statement sent to NICE.
It says that the draft revision of NICE’s guideline on depression in adults is based on wide ranging and fundamental methodological flaws for establishing effective treatment and falls short of acceptable scientific standards.
