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Chiropractic

Volume 494: debated on Thursday 25 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for the implementation of the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines on access to chiropractice. (281360)

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline in question is for management of persistent non-specific lower back pain, for which a number of potential treatments are included in the recommendations. To aid implementation of this guideline, NICE has developed tools which offer advice on costings and commissioning, and these are available on their website alongside the main guideline at:

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG88