Publication of NICE Guideline on Abortion Care

25 September 2019

The new NICE guideline on Abortion Care is published today on the NICE website. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140

Also on the NICE website can be found the supporting evidence (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/evidence), as well as all the stakeholder comments (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/documents/consultation-comments-and-responses-2) that NICE received during consultation and the responses to these comments. NICE have also produced an equality impact assessment (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/documents/equality-impact-assessment-4) to support the guideline.

The recommendations from this guideline have been included in the NICE Pathway on Abortion Care (https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/abortion-care) which brings together everything NICE has said on Abortion Care in an interactive flowchart. There is brief information about the guideline for people using services, carers and the public at ‘Information for the public’ (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/informationforpublic). 

Also published in tandem with the guideline are two NICE Decision Aids (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/resources/patient-decision-aids-and-user-guides-6906582256), which have been developed alongside the guideline and are included on the tools and resources tab (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140/resources) of the guideline webpage (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng140).