Responsibility for the provision of drug reference information in England through the British National Formulary (BNF) is moving from the Department of Health to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), as part of the new NHS Evidence portal which is due to be launched next April.
The Department’s contract for purchase of the BNF and the BNF For Children (BNFC) will also transfer to NICE in April 2009 as part of NHS Evidence, the “one-stop-shop” for health care professionals and patients to access evidence and clinical information which is now being established by NICE, as set out in Professor Lord Ara Darzi’s next-stage review of the NHS.
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