What is National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) role?
Under its enabling legislation, NHMRC can either prepare and issue clinical guidelines itself, or can be asked to approve guidelines developed by other organisations (for example RACP in relation to these ADHD guidelines). In respect to the latter, NHMRC provides procedures and guidance to help the development of guidelines by third party organisations. NHMRC issued Clinical Practice Guidelines for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in 1997 but these were withdrawn in December 2005, as sections, particularly those relating to drug therapies, were out-of-date.
