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This guideline covers how to increase uptake of the free flu vaccination among people who are eligible. It describes ways to increase awareness and how to use all opportunities in primary and secondary care to identify people who should be encouraged to have the vaccination.
Evidence-based recommendations on living-donor liver transplantation. This involves replacing a diseased or damaged liver with a healthy one from a living human donor.
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on Fungitell for antifungal treatment stratification .
treatment effects, improve effectiveness and reduce the probability of disease recurrence. Health care professionals such as therapeutic...
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on OrganOx metra for liver transplant .
Nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir, sotrovimab and tocilizumab for treating COVID-19 (TA878)
Evidence-based recommendations on nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir (Paxlovid), sotrovimab (Xevudy) and tocilizumab (RoActemra) for treating COVID-19.
Evidence-based recommendations on tixagevimab plus cilgavimab (Evusheld) for preventing COVID-19 in adults.
Summary of the evidence on rifaximin for treating pouchitis to inform local NHS planning and decision-making
This quality standard covers preventing and controlling infection in adults, young people and children receiving healthcare in primary, community and secondary care settings. It includes preventing healthcare-associated infections that develop because of treatment or from being in a healthcare setting. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS61
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- Quality statement 1: Antimicrobial stewardship
- Quality statement 2: Organisational responsibility
- Quality statement 3: Hand decontamination
- Quality statement 4: Urinary catheters
- Quality statement 5: Vascular access devices
- Quality statement 6: Educating people about infection prevention and control
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This guideline covers diagnosing and managing myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve awareness and understanding about ME/CFS and when to suspect it, so that people are diagnosed earlier. It includes recommendations on diagnosis, assessment and care planning, safeguarding, access to care and managing ME/CFS and its symptoms.
This guideline covers managing COVID-19 in babies, children, young people and adults in community and hospital settings. It includes recommendations on communication, assessment, therapeutics for COVID-19, non-invasive respiratory support, preventing and managing acute complications, and identifying and managing co-infections.
Cellulitis and erysipelas: antimicrobial prescribing (NG141)
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for adults, young people, children and babies aged 72 hours and over with cellulitis and erysipelas. It aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
Summary of the evidence on the antimicrobial prescribing of ceftolozane with tazobactam for hospital-acquired pneumonia, including ventilator-associated
Mersey Burns for calculating fluid resuscitation volume when managing burns (MIB58)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on Mersey Burns for calculating fluid resuscitation volume when managing burns
reducing the potential rise in sickness absence caused by the spread of infectious diseases.More UK randomised control...