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The underlying principles of transparency of process and methodological rigour continue to hold. Refreshing a guideline allows us to improve the usability of recommendations without changing the intent and therefore without the need for an evidence review or committee input. Refreshing changes can be made to guideline recommendations even when the surveillance decision is not to update the guideline.

All changes to recommendations made as part of the surveillance process should be agreed by the NICE surveillance team see the chapter on ensuring that published guidelines are current and accurate. When a partial update has been agreed, the publishing team also identifies recommendations that may need refreshing to feed into the scoping process.

Occasionally during development of partial updates, additional recommendations that are not part of the update may be identified for refreshing by the committee or the publishing team. Refreshing changes that are made during scoping and guideline development should be agreed with NICE staff with responsibility for quality assurance. A full update replaces an existing guideline and has a new set of recommendations, a new set of rationale and impact sections, new evidence reviews and new sections detailing the committee's discussion of the evidence.

When a full update is published the old guideline is withdrawn. When presenting partial updates of guidelines, the aim is to ensure that there is a single set of publications that bring together the updated information and relevant information from all previous versions of the guideline. In this way, readers of the updated guideline will be able to easily identify what has changed. The rest of this section covers general principles to be used when part of a guideline has been updated.

Recommendations from sections which have not been updated have been checked to determine whether any changes are essential for example, if a medicine is no longer available. Refreshing changes see the section on refreshing the guideline to recommendations in sections that have not been updated are kept to a minimum for example, changing from the passive voice to direct instructions. The status of any guidance incorporated in the previous version of the guideline has been confirmed with NICE.

For example, has the other guidance been updated by the guideline update? All recommendations new, updated and unchanged have been assessed with respect to NICE's equality duties. It is clear which sections have been updated, and whether the recommendations have been updated or amended. The summary of changes to recommendations has been revised in line with the final recommendations.

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