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This guideline covers ways to reduce suicide and help people bereaved or affected by suicides. It aims to:

Type

NICE guideline

Published

10 September 2018

This guideline covers interventions in secondary and further education to prevent and reduce alcohol use among children and young people aged 11 up to and including 18. It also covers people aged 11 to 25 with special educational needs or disabilities in full-time education. It will also be relevant to children aged 11 in year 6 of primary school.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

12 August 2019

This guideline covers assessing and managing motor neurone disease (MND). It aims to improve care from the time of diagnosis, and covers information and support, organisation of care, managing symptoms and preparing for end of life care.

Type

NICE guideline

Last updated

23 July 2019

This guideline covers support for adults (aged 18 and over) who provide unpaid care for anyone aged 16 or over with health or social care needs. It aims to improve the lives of carers by helping health and social care practitioners identify people who are caring for someone and give them the right information and support. It covers carers’ assessments, practical, emotional and social support and training, and support for carers providing end of life care.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

22 January 2020

This guideline covers keeping adults in care homes safe from abuse and neglect. It includes potential indicators of abuse and neglect by individuals or organisations, and covers the safeguarding process from when a concern is first identified through to section 42 safeguarding enquiries. There are recommendations on policy, training, and care home culture, to improve care home staff awareness of safeguarding and ensure people can report concerns when needed.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

26 February 2021

This guideline covers services for children, young people and adults with a learning disability (or autism and a learning disability) and behaviour that challenges. It aims to promote a lifelong approach to supporting people and their families and carers, focusing on prevention and early intervention and minimising inpatient admissions.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

28 March 2018

This guideline covers diagnosing and managing dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease). It aims to improve care by making recommendations on training staff and helping carers to support people living with dementia.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

20 June 2018

This guideline covers care and support for adults with learning disabilities as they grow older. It covers identifying changing needs, planning for the future, and delivering services including health, social care and housing. It aims to support people to access the services they need as they get older.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

11 April 2018

This guideline covers the planning and management of end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young people (aged 0–17 years) with life-limiting conditions. It aims to involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, and improve the support that is available to them throughout their lives.

Type

NICE guideline

Last updated

25 July 2019

This guideline covers care and support for adults with cerebral palsy. It aims to improve health and wellbeing, promote access to services and support participation and independent living.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

15 January 2019

This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity at the centre of the decision-making process.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

03 October 2018

This guideline covers organising and delivering end of life care services, which provide care and support in the final weeks and months of life (or for some conditions, years), and the planning and preparation for this. It aims to ensure that people have access to the care that they want and need in all care settings. It also includes advice on services for carers.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

16 October 2019

This guideline covers interventions that use a digital or mobile platform to help people eat more healthily, become more active, stop smoking, reduce their alcohol intake or practise safer sex. The interventions include those delivered by text message, apps, wearable devices or the internet. The guideline only includes those that are delivered by the technology itself and not by healthcare professionals using technology to deliver interventions.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

07 October 2020

This guideline covers indoor air quality in residential buildings. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of good air quality in people's homes and how to achieve this.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

08 January 2020

This guideline covers stop smoking interventions and services delivered in primary care and community settings for everyone over the age of 12. It aims to ensure that everyone who smokes is advised and encouraged to stop and given the support they need. It emphasises the importance of targeting vulnerable groups who find smoking cessation hard or who smoke a lot.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

28 March 2018

This guideline covers how to improve the physical environment to encourage and support physical activity. The aim is to increase the general population’s physical activity levels.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

22 March 2018

This guideline covers how to help people return to work after long-term sickness absence, reduce recurring sickness absence, and help prevent people moving from short-term to long-term sickness absence.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

20 November 2019

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.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

22 August 2018

This guideline covers how community pharmacies can help maintain and improve people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing, including people with a long-term condition. It aims to encourage more people to use community pharmacies by integrating them within existing health and care pathways and ensuring they offer standard services and a consistent approach. It requires a collaborative approach from individual pharmacies and their representatives, local authorities and other commissioners.

Type

NICE guideline

Published

02 August 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on Axonics sacral neuromodulation system for treating refractory overactive bladder

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

03 September 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on SEM Scanner 200 for preventing pressure ulcers

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

14 October 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on Zio XT for detecting cardiac arrhythmias

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

01 December 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on Leukomed Sorbact for preventing surgical site infection after caesarean section or vascular surgery

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

03 February 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on the VAC Veraflo Therapy system for acute infected or chronic wounds that are failing to heal

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

27 January 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on the Pipeline Flex embolisation device with Shield Technology for the treatment of complex intracranial aneurysms

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

09 January 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on the PLASMA system for transurethral resection and haemostasis of the prostate

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

06 January 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on the Ambu aScope4 Broncho for use in unexpected difficult airways

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

17 June 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on the Debrisoft monofilament debridement pad for use in acute or chronic wounds

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

25 March 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system for long bone fractures with non-union or delayed healing

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

08 October 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on Thopaz+ for managing chest drains

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

21 March 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on Neuropad for detecting preclinical diabetic peripheral neuropathy

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

10 September 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on iFuse for treating chronic sacroiliac joint pain

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

02 October 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on Episcissors-60 for mediolateral episiotomy

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

11 February 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on PneuX to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

08 April 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on Rezum for treating lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

24 June 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on Curos for preventing infections when using needleless connectors

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

09 May 2019

Evidence-based decisions on Endocuff Vision for assisting visualisation during colonoscopy

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

07 June 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on gammaCore for cluster headache

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

03 December 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on the Senza spinal cord stimulation system for delivering HF10 therapy to treat chronic neuropathic pain

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

23 January 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on The Sherlock 3CG Tip Confirmation System for placement of peripherally inserted central catheters

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

30 May 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on Virtual Touch Quantification to diagnose and monitor liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B and C

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

17 January 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on PICO negative pressure wound dressings for closed surgical incisions

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

06 August 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on UrgoStart for treating diabetic foot ulcers and leg ulcers

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

31 January 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on Mepilex Border Heel and Sacrum dressings for preventing pressure ulcers

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Published

10 January 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on The 3M Tegaderm CHG IV securement dressing for central venous and arterial catheter insertion sites

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

18 September 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on the E-vita open plus for treating complex aneurysms and dissections of the thoracic aorta

Type

Medical technologies guidance

Last updated

01 October 2018