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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 volanesorsen (Waylivra) for treating familial chylomicronaemia syndrome in adults

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

21 October 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on metreleptin (Myalepta) for treating lipodystrophy in children and adults

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

24 February 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on cerliponase alfa (Brineura) for treating neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 in children

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

27 November 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna) for RPE65-mediated inherited retinal dystrophies in people with vision loss caused by inherit

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

09 October 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on patisiran (Onpattro) for treating hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis in adults with stage 1 and stage 2 polyneuropathy

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

14 August 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on inotersen (Tegsedi) for stage 1 and stage 2 polyneuropathy in adults with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

22 May 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on burosumab (Crysvita) for treating X-linked hypophosphataemia (XLH) in children and young people

Type

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Published

10 October 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on the SepsiTest assay for rapidly identifying bloodstream bacteria and fungi

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Last updated

19 February 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on 2 adjunctive colposcopy technologies (the DYSIS colposcope with DYSISmap and the ZedScan I) for assessing suspected cervical

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

25 April 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on biomarker tests to help diagnose preterm labour in women with intact membranes. The tests are Actim Partus, PartoSure and the

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

04 July 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on tests to help assess risk of acute kidney injury for people being considered for critical care admission. The tests are the

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

17 June 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on high-sensitivity troponin tests for the early rule out of NSTEMI (non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction)

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

26 August 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on implantable cardiac monitors to detect atrial fibrillation after cryptogenic stroke

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

02 September 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on testing strategies for Lynch syndrome for people with endometrial cancer

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

28 October 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests for therapeutic monitoring of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitors in

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

10 July 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on lead-I electrocardiogram (ECG) devices (imPulse, Kardia Mobile, MyDiagnostick and Zenicor-ECG) for detecting symptomatic

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

08 May 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for people with early breast cancer. The tests are EndoPredict

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

19 December 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on rapid tests for group A streptococcal infections in people aged 5 and over with a sore throat

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

13 November 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on point-of-care creatinine devices to assess kidney function before CT imaging with intravenous contrast. The tests are

Type

Diagnostics guidance

Published

13 November 2019

Evidence-based recommendations on self-expanding implant insertion into the intersphincteric space for faecal incontinence. This involves inserting implants

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

27 January 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on minimally invasive radical hysterectomy for early stage cervical cancer. This involves removing the uterus, cervix, upper

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

27 January 2021

Evidence-based recommendations on intravesical microwave hyperthermia and chemotherapy for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer in adults

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

19 September 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on superior rectal artery embolisation for haemorrhoids in adults. This involves blocking the blood vessels supplying the

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

29 August 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on leadless cardiac pacemaker implantation for bradyarrhythmias in adults. This involves inserting a device into the heart that

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

29 August 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on transurethral water vapour ablation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia in adults

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

21 August 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to promote healing of delayed-union and non-union fractures in adults. This involves using an

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

31 July 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound to promote healing of fresh fractures at high risk of non-healing in adults. This involves

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

31 July 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on artificial iris insertion for acquired aniridia. This involves inserting an artificial iris into the eye

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

22 July 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on artificial iris insertion for congenital aniridia. This involves inserting an artificial iris into the eye

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

22 July 2020

Evidence-based recommendations on mosaicplasty in people with symptomatic articular cartilage defects of the knee. This involves taking healthy cartilage from

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

14 March 2018

Evidence-based recommendations on laparoscopic mesh pectopexy for apical prolapse of the uterus or vagina. This involves inserting mesh to hold the uterus or

Type

Interventional procedures guidance

Published

14 March 2018