ABSTRACT
The Interventional Procedures Programme was set up in 2003 to make recommendations about whether interventional procedures that are used to diagnose and treat ill health are safe and work well enough to be used routinely. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence encourages individual patients, patient organisations, carers and members of the public to contribute to the development of interventional procedures guidance. Suggestions for topics usually come from clinicians who wish to perform a new procedure, but they can also come from patients or patient organisations. The Interventional Procedures Programme seeks the views of patients who have had experience of an interventional procedure. The Interventional Procedures Programme alerts the Patient and Public Involvement Programme that a procedure has provisionally been taken on by the programme. Patient organisations and individual patients also contribute to the Interventional Procedures Programme through the consultation process.
