In order to avoid providing a focus for political debate or detracting attention from the general election campaign, NICE will not publish any guidance document, in either draft or final form, during the general election campaign. 

In the absence of NICE guidance on the use of a drug, commissioners should continue to make decisions on the availability of treatments based on an assessment of the available evidence.  An absence of NICE guidance on a treatment alone is not an acceptable reason not to fund a treatment.

Consultations that began before the election was called will continue as planned. Not publishing guidance during the election period will not significantly lengthen NICE’s decision-making for guidance currently in development. 

Factual information will continue to be made available to members of the public, parliamentary candidates, political organisations and journalists in the usual way, in accordance with the Code of Practice on Openness in the NHS.

For more details, go to: https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-and-the-general-election-campaign