Eric Power: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- interim director of the Centre for Guidelines at NICE
- Quoted on
- Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics, Diabetes, Cancer, Maternity & neonatal
- Tracked press citations
- 7
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“People with obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder can experience symptoms for a long time before they receive the right diagnosis and support. These conditions are often misunderstood, and many people find them difficult to talk about because of embarrassment, shame or fear of being judged. Our draft recommendations aim to help healthcare professionals recognise symptoms earlier, ask the right questions and support people to access appropriate treatment sooner.”
What Eric Power has said
“People with obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder can experience symptoms for a long time before they receive the right diagnosis and support. These conditions are often misunderstood, and many people find them difficult to talk about because of embarrassment, shame or fear of being judged. Our draft recommendations aim to help healthcare professionals recognise symptoms earlier, ask the right questions and support people to access appropriate treatment sooner.”
interim director of the Centre for Guidelines at Nice · Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics · 30 Sept 2026 · Want Botox? You may have OCD, NHS guidance suggests ↗
“This is a landmark moment for diabetes care. Our independent committee conducted a rigorous review of the evidence and concluded that by offering certain medicines earlier, we can prevent thousands of heart attacks, strokes and cases of kidney failure – keeping people healthier for longer while reducing pressure on NHS services.”
interim director of the centre for guidelines at NICE · Diabetes · 30 Sept 2026 · Updated guidance on type 2 diabetes treatment could save thousands of lives ↗
“People with obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder can experience symptoms for a long time before they receive the right diagnosis and support. These conditions are often misunderstood, and many people find them difficult to talk about because of embarrassment, shame or fear of being judged. Our draft recommendations aim to help healthcare professionals recognise symptoms earlier, ask the right questions and support people to access appropriate treatment sooner.”
interim director of the Centre for Guidelines at Nice · Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics · 29 Sept 2026 · Cosmetic procedures ‘shouldn’t be performed on patients with body dysmorphia’, health officials say ↗
“The committee's proposed recommendations will ensure more personalised, targeted testing, so women at greatest risk of ovarian cancer are identified and referred sooner.”
Centre for Guidelines deputy director · Cancer · 10 Sept 2026 · NICE proposes new age thresholds for ovarian cancer referral following blood test ↗
“This is a landmark moment for diabetes care. Our independent committee conducted a rigorous review of the evidence and concluded that by offering certain medicines earlier, we can prevent thousands of heart attacks, strokes and cases of kidney failure — keeping people healthier for longer while reducing pressure on NHS services.”
NICE interim director of the centre for guidelines · Diabetes · 10 Sept 2026 · NICE confirms first-line SGLT-2 prescribing in final type 2 diabetes guidance ↗
“We listened carefully to what patients, clinicians and patient groups told us during consultation. They described how complex endometriosis is, how they felt existing labels were misleading, and that the condition needed its own pathway.”
interim director of the Centre for Guidelines at NICE · Maternity & neonatal · 10 Sept 2026 · Updated NICE fertility guidance includes specific path for endometriosis ↗
Where Eric Power has been quoted
- Officials say people seeking cosmetic surgery need mental health checkwalesonline.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Want Botox? You may have OCD, NHS guidance suggeststelegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Updated guidance on type 2 diabetes treatment could save thousands of livesdrwf.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Cosmetic procedures ‘shouldn’t be performed on patients with body dysmorphia’, health officials sayindependent.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- NICE proposes new age thresholds for ovarian cancer referral following blood testpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- NICE confirms first-line SGLT-2 prescribing in final type 2 diabetes guidancepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Updated NICE fertility guidance includes specific path for endometriosispulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
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