@pipeworx/nice-guidance

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Tools: 5

NICE guidance for England — technology appraisals (which decide whether the NHS funds a medicine), NICE and clinical guidelines, diagnostics and interventional procedures guidance, and quality standards.

Tools

• nice_search_guidance(query, guidance_type?, sort?, page?, limit?) — search by drug, device, procedure or condition. Returns reference number, title, programme, dates and summary.
• nice_guidance(id) — the record for one reference number (TA1040, NG101, CG81, QS12, …): programme, dates, overview, chapters, condition area, and whether it is current, withdrawn, terminated or replaced.
• nice_recommendations(id) — the numbered recommendation paragraphs in full text. Answers “did NICE recommend this treatment, and for whom”.
• nice_guidance_by_topic(topic?, limit?) — everything NICE has filed under a condition area, the complete curated list rather than a relevance ranking. Call with no topic to list the condition areas.
• nice_recent_guidance(guidance_type?, limit?) — newest guidance first, optionally one programme.

Auth

Keyless.

NICE’s own Syndication API (api.nice.org.uk) is not usable without arrangement: /services answers 401, and access requires an application form plus a signed licence agreement (https://www.nice.org.uk/reusing-our-content/nice-syndication-api). These tools read the public pages instead. NICE content is NICE copyright; the tools return metadata, summaries and recommendation text with the source URL on every result.

Data sources

• https://www.nice.org.uk/search?q=… — the searchable index, server-rendered HTML. Accepts q (may be empty), s=Date, ndt (document type), ngt (guidance type), pa (page), ps (page size).
• https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/<id> and …/chapter/<slug> — the guidance record and its chapters.
• https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases[/…]/products — the complete list for a condition area.

Things worth knowing before you touch this

• Withdrawn, terminated and replaced guidance stays published at its original URL. TA762 still resolves, still looks like a recommendation, and is dead — the only marker is one sentence in the body naming TA1040 as its replacement. Every tool here returns status and superseded_by for that reason; recommending a replaced appraisal is a confidently wrong answer with clinical weight.
• A query string on /guidance/published or on a topic /products page is refused — HTTP 403 with a “Temporary Service Interruption” page, from any client, including one carrying a browser User-Agent and the site’s own cookies. The same paths without a query string answer 200 and return the complete list, so nothing is lost; the pack only ever requests the query-free form of those two. /search is not affected and takes all its parameters normally.
• /search also returns guidance still in development (/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ta11340), which has no recommendation yet. Those rows come back with status: "in development" and expected_publication, never as published guidance.
• The date labels are separated from their values by  , so a \s* bridge between “Published:” and the <time> element silently yields null rather than failing.
• Recommendations are <article class="numbered-paragraph"> blocks with the number in its own heading. A plain <p> sweep loses the “1.1” numbering and mixes the “why these recommendations were made” rationale in with the recommendations themselves.
• Reference-number prefixes are the programme: TA technology appraisal, NG NICE guideline, CG clinical guideline, QS quality standard, DG diagnostics, IPG interventional procedures, MTG medical technologies, HST highly specialised technologies, HTE/HTG health technology evaluation.
• This is England. Scotland (SMC), Wales (AWMSG) and Northern Ireland make their own reimbursement decisions and are not in here.
• robots.txt allows everything with a 1-second crawl delay.

Tools

• nice_search_guidance — Search NICE guidance for England by drug, device, procedure or condition — technology appraisals, NICE and clinical guidelines, diagnostics guidance, interventional procedures and quality standards. R
• nice_guidance — The published record for one piece of NICE guidance by reference number (TA1040, NG101, CG81, QS12, IPG123, DG55, HST20): title, programme, publication and last-review dates, overview, the chapters it
• nice_recommendations — The recommendations chapter of a piece of NICE guidance, in full text — the numbered paragraphs stating what NICE recommends and under what conditions, including whether a medicine is recommended only
• nice_guidance_by_topic — Every piece of NICE guidance filed under a condition area — e.g. all breast cancer guidance, or all guidance on type 2 diabetes — with reference numbers, titles, programme and dates. This is the compl
• nice_recent_guidance — NICE guidance published or updated most recently, newest first, optionally restricted to one programme such as technology appraisals. Answers “what has NICE published this month” and shows which treat