We produce a wide range of information as part of our ‘public task’ - our core role and the functions we are under a legal duty to perform.
Permission to use this information, which includes our guidance on health and social care and our corporate documents, is covered by a licensing framework dependent on where our content is to be used.
Read our full public task statement
Use of our content in the UK
All requests to use our content in a UK setting only are covered by the NICE UK Open Content Licence. This allows you to reuse our content, free of charge, subject to the terms and conditions of the licence.
View the NICE UK Open Content Licence
Use of our content internationally
Requests to use our content internationally, except for personal research and study purposes, are subject to a fee and licensing agreement.
If you would like to reproduce our content as part of a service or in a publication, application or product outside of the UK, including territories alongside the UK, you must complete the International use of NICE content form.
Our licensing allows you to use our content, or extracts of our content, on a non-exclusive basis, in your products and services for an international audience.
Complete content
Get permission to publish, share, translate and adapt our content. You can also host the entire NICE guidance library through the use of our syndication service.
Adaptation
Our adaptation licensing allows you to reuse, modify, translate and combine our content with other third-party content to create your own derivative products provided you adhere to established international protocols.
Contextualisation
Our NICE international team manages the NICE guideline contextualisation service. Our experts offer consultancy support to contextualise our guidelines to fit the specific needs of your country as an alternative to developing your own guidelines. This consultancy service also offers quality assurance which aims to ensure your guideline contextualisation follows internationally recognised standards of best practice. We can also give permission for you to adapt our guidelines and other products as part of this added value service.
Translation
Should you wish to translate original NICE content without amendment, we will proof your translation as part of our licence with you. Please note we do not proof adapted content in translation though you are free to translate this work if you choose.
Selected extracts
Get permission to use selected NICE content in third-party products such as books, journals, advertising, marketing and training materials and other products.
Use of our COVID-19 content internationally
Our COVID-19 rapid guidelines and evidence summaries are exempt from our overseas reuse application, licence and fee. This means you can:
- adopt the guidelines for your own healthcare setting
- adapt the guidelines by combining them with your own local content
- translate the resultant outputs.
When using content from our COVID-19 rapid guidelines and evidence summaries you must:
- make all your outputs reusing NICE content freely available to others
- acknowledge the use of NICE content, and link to the source content on our website
- only use the NICE logo if the original NICE guidance publication is used in its entirety without including additional content
- tell us how our content has been used by emailing reuseofcontent@nice.org.uk, to support the evaluation and development of our guidance.
We cannot accept responsibility or liability for the use of our content in third party outputs.
Content assurance service
We offer a content assurance service if your publication, product or service is for use in the UK.
Our experts can review the use of NICE content in your products or services to:
- check you are using our content accurately
- check the context is appropriate
- give feedback on your use of our content.
Find out more about our content assurance service.
What content is available for reuse?
Content available under our NICE UK Open Content Licence and our International Licences are described in our information asset register.
Information asset register
| Asset category | Description | Conditions of reuse |
|---|---|---|
| Published guidance | Content of published guidance and supporting outputs published by NICE including, but not limited to:
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Content containing intellectual property owned by a third party is exempt from reuse requests. This includes documents where the intellectual property rights are not subject to public sector body ownership. |
| Published advice | Content of published advice and supporting outputs published by NICE including, but not limited to:
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Content containing intellectual property owned by a third party is exempt from reuse requests. This includes documents where the intellectual property rights are not subject to public sector body ownership. |
| NICE Collections |
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Content containing intellectual property owned by a third party is exempt from reuse requests. This includes documents where the intellectual property rights are not subject to public sector body ownership. |
| Images | Images on our website and other materials | Contact us for Intellectual Property Rights status. |
| Corporate documents | Official documents created to support the administration of NICE’s core functions and activities including, but not limited to:
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NICE reserves the right to charge for providing unpublished content. |
Is there any content I cannot reuse?
You will not be able to use our content where:
- The document is one where the intellectual property is owned by a third party which is not a public sector body subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations (2015). This includes but is not limited to: Clinical Knowledge Summaries, the British National Formulary and its derivative outputs.
- Content is made available as part of a consultation process and is subject to amendment before formal publication by NICE.
- The request is to use the NICE logo and associated ‘marks’.
- The information is exempt from access by virtue of the UK’s access to information laws, including, but not exclusively, on the grounds of protecting personal data or commercial in confidence information.
Reuse of public sector information regulations
The amended EU Directive on the 're-use of Public Sector Information (PSI)' came into effect in the UK in July 2015. This requires public sector bodies to make their information available for reuse free of charge for commercial and non-commercial purposes so long as the activity falls within the organisation’s ‘public task’.
NICE has taken a broader approach to cover not only reuse but use of its content. This means that our content can be used if it mirrors our ‘public task’ and also if the reuse activity adds value to what we do.
What if I'm not happy with your reuse of content policy?
Please read our reuse policy and complaints procedure (PDF) and send any complaints about decisions made by NICE under the regulations to:
David Coombs
Associate director, corporate office
david.coombs@nice.org.uk
Queries and requests
If you have a query about reusing our content, please get in touch.
We'll need to know:
- your name and contact details
- the content you would like to reuse
- how you intend to reuse the content and its purpose.