National Institute for Clinical Excellence

Remit for Guideline

Lung Cancer

The following remit was received from the Department of Health and National Assembly for Wales in July 2001 as part of the Institute's 6th wave programme of work.

"To prepare clinical guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. This is to supplement the existing service guidance published by DH in 1998 and this commission replaces the earlier commission to update that guidance".

The previous cancer service publications referred to, in this remit, are as follows:

• NHS Executive (1998) Guidance on commissioning cancer services: improving outcomes in lung cancer: the research evidence. London: Department of Health.
  
  
• NHS Executive (1998) Guidance on commissioning cancer services: improving outcomes in lung cancer: the manual. London: Department of Health.

It was expected that this previous work should be "updated to reflect recent evidence", in the form of a clinical guideline.