March 6, 2012

DOMINO study into Alzheimer’s drugs and current NICE guidelines

Speakers:
Prof Clive Ballard, Director of Research, Alzheimers Society
Prof Robert Howard, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychopathology, KCL Institute of Psychiatry
Prof Nick Fox, Senior Clinical Fellow, Medical Research Council
Angela Clayton-Turner, Lay Representative, Trial Steering

The SMC was asked to host a briefing on the publication of the DOMINO study, which looked at the efficacy of two of the most commonly used Alzheimer’s drugs, Donepezil and Memantine, for patients in later stages of the disease – stages at which they would not be provided with Donepezil under NICE guidelines.