Into Practice: November 2007

November 2007

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Consultant's catch-up

Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultant’s. This month Steve Sparks tells us what he has been up to.

Shared learning update

Learn from your colleagues across the NHS and beyond

Take a look at the latest submissions on our shared learning database:

´You and me, living with dementia together´ project by Sussex Partnership NHS Trust
Abnormal uterine bleeding service by Bradford and Airedale PCT
Benchmarking policy for implementing NICE guidance by Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT
Project OPERA by Cancerbackup
Commissioning a patient-led care continence pathway for women by Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT
Implementation of an adult obesity care pathway by Islington Primary Care Trust
Implementation of NICE guidance by TA49 by Southampton NHS Trust
See all entries

Planning ahead for key medicines and NICE guidance 2008/2009

Key topics to inform budget setting and service impact planning

Planning Ahead is designed to inform NHS planning for those new medicines where the clinical and/or resource impact may be sufficiently high to require a local assessment and plan of introduction.

The document focuses on 15 topics comprising new medicines and NICE technology appraisals that are either recently available or, may be due in the next 18 months or so.

Planning Ahead is available on the National Prescribing Centre website as is the entire NPC New Medicines portfolio.

Reducing patient fear through modernising treatments

Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) can have a huge impact on women's lives. Many women suffer in silence with this condition believing, wrongly, that either they should put up with it or that the only treatment is a hysterectomy. Estimates suggest that half of women with the condition do not come forward to seek help from their GP.

Latest implementation tools

Chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis	Behaviour change
Audit criteria Implementation advice Slide set	Costing tool
Urinary tract infection in children	Multiple myeloma -bortezomib
Audit criteria Costing report Costing template Implementation advice Slide set	Audit criteria Costing tool
Rheumatoid arthritis - adalimumbab, etanercept and infliximab - first use
Costing tool

Using NICE guidance to promote health and well being for people working with local communities

During 2007 we have been introducing NICE guidance and our forward programme of public health guidance to senior managers in local authorities across England.

Recommendation reminders

Coming up next month


	Reminders on recommendations from existing NICE guidance that identify ineffective practice
	Fertility

Book your tickets for the NICE annual conference 2007 - Evidence into Practice, on 5 and 6 December at Manchester Central Convention Complex