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Depression in adults: treatment and management

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG222
  • Published:  29 June 2022

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Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Decision aids

  • Decision support tool: making decisions about managing depression

Education

  • Royal College of Psychiatrists: Stopping antidepressants

Summary versions

  • Visual summaries

  • Discussing first-line treatments for less severe depression (PDF 136 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Discussing first-line treatments for more severe depression (PDF 132 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Preventing relapse (PDF 149 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Further-line treatment (PDF 135 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Treatment options for chronic depression, depression with personality disorder or psychotic depression (PDF 169 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • The matched care model (PDF 145 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022

Audit and service improvement

  • Baseline assessment tool (Excel 80 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022

Resource impact

  • Resource impact summary report

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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