Into Practice: June 2008

June 2008

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	Consultant's catch-up


	Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultant's. This month Gill Matthews tells us what she's been up to in the North East. You may remember that Val wrote in last month's Into Practice that the consultants have been focusing on visiting maternity units in the first part of this year. We are pleased to report that we continue to receive a warm welcome, and that the discussions are proving useful both to NICE and to the heads of maternity.
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	NICE Good practice awards

	Following the success of the Shared Learning Award 2007 we have made this year's award bigger and better. The NICE Shared Learning Awards give you the chance to share your experience of implementing NICE guidance with colleagues in the NHS and beyond. It is a chance for you to tell us what worked, what didn't work and what you learnt along the way. Read more



	ERNIE update

	See the latest reports added to the Evaluation and Review of NICE Implementation Evidence (ERNIE) database
	Drugs used in the management of hypertension in primary care in England See all ERNIE reports

Making the business case for employers

June 2008 Into Practice - Primary Article

Over recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of encouraging people to make healthy choices. To do this we need to change people's attitudes, behaviour and practices.

Latest implementation tools

Surgical management of OME	Diabetes - type 2 (update)
Audit support	Costing tool Slide set
Lipid modification	Anaemia (cancer-treatment induced) - epoetin ( alfa & beta) & darbepoetin
Costing tool Slide set	Costing tool Audit support
Antenatal care Audit support	Promoting physical activity in the workplace Costing tool Slide set

Ankylosing spondylitis - adalimumab, etanercept & infliximab Costing tool Audit support Maternal and child nutrition Audit support	Diabetes in pregnancy Audit support Prophylaxis for infective endocarditis Audit support
Physical activity and the environment Checklist for health overview and scrutiny committees	School support Slide set A summary of selected NICE recommendations

NICE implementation support programme

Into Practice June 2008 - Secondary Article

The NICE implementation support programme is now four years old! It set out with the basic aim to make it easier to put NICE guidance recommendations into practice, and thus improve patient care. The approach to supporting implementation was informed by the evidence and by the views of healthcare professionals, and is based around four key principles:

Recommendation reminders

Coming up next month

Reminders on recommendations from existing NICE guidance that identify ineffective practice

Obsessive compulsive disorder

Audit support for antenatal care
Audit support for diabetes in pregnancy
Audit support for prophylaxis against infective endocarditis
Audit support for social and emotional wellbeing in primary education
Audit support for maternal and child nutrition
Slide set for type 2 diabetes (update)
Slide set for lipid modification
Slide set for promoting physical activity in the workplace
Costing tool and audit support for head and neck cancer – cetuximab
Costing tool and audit support for lung cancer (non-small cell) – erlotinib
Costing tool and audit support for psoriasis- adaliumamb
Costing tool and audit support for rimonabant for the treatment of overweight and obese patients
Bespoke tool for physical activity and the environment

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