Mental health and wellbeing

Guidance

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Quality standards

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NICE Pathways

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Guidance by programme

NICE guidelines (15)

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Medtech innovation briefings (1)

Review the evidence and likely costs of medical devices and technologies.

Products being developed or updated

In development (3)

Guidance, quality standards and advice being developed.
Proposed (2)

Technology appraisal guidance which has been proposed for development.

Putting guidance into practice

Shared learning

Examples of how our guidance and standards have been put into practice in the NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector and a range of other organisations.

Showing 3 of 15 shared learning examples for this topic:

Using NICE Quality Standards for antenatal and postnatal mental health to improve the quality of NHS services working with women during the perinatal period

Published date:

January 2019
A language specific and culturally adapted pain management programme

Published date:

May 2018
Evidencing best practice against NICE Quality Standards across geographically dispersed care homes and using the standards to encourage iterative improvement

Published date:

January 2018

View all 15 shared learning examples

Podcasts

How can we help people who are lonely?

In this podcast we chat to:

Neil McCarthy from not-for-profit organisation Octavia and Gill Roberts about schemes that help people who are lonely.
Val about her personal experiences living in an Octavia extra care scheme.
Kate Terroni, Oxfordshire Council’s Adult Social Care Director about how Amazon Echos can reduce social isolation.
Alive Activities about older people in care.