Help NICE to find people with lived experience to join their committee
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces guidance on the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease and ill health, and provide social care support. Our guidance is based on research evidence and takes into account the views of people working in or using relevant services, and other stakeholder groups.
Our partners in the voluntary and community sector, are crucial to ensuring that we create guidance that is impactful and acceptable for people with lived experience.
Help us get committed people with lived experience on our committee
We are currently looking for people with lived experience, or their loved ones and unpaid carers, as well as their advocates to join the committee developing our indicators. Our indicators measure outcomes that reflect quality of care. They also look at processes that are linked by evidence to improved outcomes. Many of the indicators we develop focus on primary care, also known as care provided or overseen by someone’s local general practitioner (GP), but some are also relevant across the wider health and social care systems too.
We are looking for one person with a range of lived experience across health, public health and social care, together with an understanding of quality improvement from the perspective of people using these services, to join our NICE indicator advisory committee. They will work together with one other standing lived experience committee member, and their involvement will be vital in ensuring that we hear and shape our guidance in line with the views, experiences and needs of those who are most directly impacted by NICE’s work.
It would be great if we could find someone who has knowledge or experience of how to drive up the quality of services through a range of different approaches from the perspective of people with lived experience – for example, through work they may have done to support or design clinical audits, improvement and action plans for services, or a programme of training or education for practitioners – but this is not essential.
As a standing lay member on a NICE committee, they won’t have personal knowledge or experience of every topic this committee looks at, but they should have a broad understanding of the issues important to patients and their families or unpaid carers. They will be expected to research topics they are not familiar with so that they can gain this insight and highlight issues of importance for people and communities within the topic area.
The appointed lived experience member will need to be able to contribute effectively in a formal committee setting. Our lived experience members are paid a fee to attend meetings in recognition of their valuable expertise and knowledge (£300 for a full day meeting, £150 for a half day meeting), and we also cover travel and other expenses.
This opportunity for people with lived experience to work with NICE might be of particular interest to local volunteer networks in your area.
See our recruitment advert for details of what working with the committee involves, the kind of experience and knowledge we are looking for, and how to apply. Recruitment is open until 11.59pm on Wednesday 21 May 2025.