ENDURALIFE powered CRT-D devices for treating heart failure (MTG33)
Evidence-based recommendations on ENDURALIFE-powered CRT-D devices for treating heart failure
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Drug misuse prevention: targeted interventions (NG64)
This guideline covers targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, ‘legal highs’ and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or delay harmful use of drugs in children, young people and adults who are most likely to start using drugs or who are already experimenting or using drugs occasionally.
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HeartFlow FFRCT for estimating fractional flow reserve from coronary CT angiography (MTG32)
Evidence-based recommendations on HeartFlow FFRCT for estimating fractional flow reserve from coronary CT angiography
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HumiGard for preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (MTG31)
Evidence-based recommendations on HumiGard for preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia
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Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population (NG63)
This guideline covers making people aware of how to correctly use antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) and the dangers associated with their overuse and misuse. It also includes measures to prevent and control infection that can stop people needing antimicrobials or spreading infection to others. It aims to change people’s behaviour to reduce antimicrobial resistance and the spread of resistant microbes.
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XprESS multi sinus dilation system for treating chronic sinusitis (MTG30)
Evidence-based recommendations on the XprESS multi-sinus dilation system for treating chronic sinusitis after medical treatment has failed
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HIV testing: increasing uptake among people who may have undiagnosed HIV (NG60)
This guideline covers how to increase the uptake of HIV testing in primary and secondary care, specialist sexual health services and the community. It describes how to plan and deliver services that are tailored to the local prevalence of HIV, promote awareness of HIV testing and increase opportunities to offer testing to people who may have undiagnosed HIV.
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Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services (NG58)
This guideline covers how to improve services for people aged 14 and above who have been diagnosed as having coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse. The aim is to provide a range of coordinated services that address people’s wider health and social care needs, as well as other issues such as employment and housing.
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Harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people (NG55)
This guideline covers children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour, including those on remand or serving community or custodial sentences. It aims to ensure these problems don’t escalate and possibly lead to them being charged with a sexual offence. It also aims to ensure no-one is unnecessarily referred to specialist services.
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Oral health for adults in care homes (NG48)
This guideline covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The aim is to maintain and improve their oral health and ensure timely access to dental treatment.
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GreenLight XPS for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (MTG29)
Evidence-based recommendations on GreenLight XPS for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia
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Workplace health: management practices (NG13)
This guideline covers how to improve the health and wellbeing of employees, with a focus on organisational culture and the role of line managers.
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Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities (NG44)
This guideline covers community engagement approaches to reduce health inequalities, ensure health and wellbeing initiatives are effective and help local authorities and health bodies meet their statutory obligations.
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Spectra Optia for automatic red blood cell exchange in people with sickle cell disease (MTG28)
Evidence-based recommendations on Spectra Optia for automated red blood cell exchange in people with sickle cell disease
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Skin cancer prevention (PH32)
This guideline covers new buildings and communal outdoor areas. The aim is to ensure there are enough shady areas to protect people from overexposure to the sun.
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Sunlight exposure: risks and benefits (NG34)
This guideline covers how to communicate the risks and benefits of natural sunlight exposure (specifically, the ultraviolet rays UVA and UVB) to help people understand why they may need to modify their behaviour to reduce their risk of skin cancer and vitamin D deficiency.
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Older people: independence and mental wellbeing (NG32)
This guideline covers interventions to maintain and improve the mental wellbeing and independence of people aged 65 or older and how to identify those most at risk of a decline.
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Oral health promotion: general dental practice (NG30)
This guideline covers how general dental practice teams can convey advice about oral hygiene and the use of fluoride. It also covers diet, smoking, smokeless tobacco and alcohol intake.
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Dementia, disability and frailty in later life – mid-life approaches to delay or prevent onset (NG16)
This guideline covers mid-life approaches to delay or prevent the onset of dementia, disability and frailty in later life. The guideline aims to increase the amount of time that people can be independent, healthy and active in later life.
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UroLift for treating lower urinary tract symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (MTG26)
Evidence-based recommendations on UroLift for treating lower urinary tract symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia
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Looked-after children and young people (PH28)
This guideline covers how organisations, professionals and carers can work together to deliver high quality care, stable placements and nurturing relationships for looked-after children and young people. It aims to help these children and young people reach their full potential and enjoy the same opportunities in life as their peers.
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Preventing excess weight gain (NG7)
This guideline covers behaviours such as diet and physical activity to help children (after weaning), young people and adults maintain a healthy weight or help prevent excess weight gain. The aim is to prevent a range of diseases and conditions including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improve mental wellbeing.
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Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes (NG6)
This guideline covers reducing the health risks (including preventable deaths) associated with living in a cold home. It aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people vulnerable to the cold. Improving the temperature in homes, by improving energy efficiency, may also help reduce unnecessary fuel consumption.
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VibraTip for testing vibration perception to detect diabetic peripheral neuropathy (MTG22)
Evidence-based recommendations on VibraTip for testing vibration perception to detect diabetic peripheral neuropathy
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Parafricta Bootees and Undergarments to reduce skin breakdown in people with or at risk of pressure ulcers (MTG20)
Evidence-based recommendations on Parafricta Bootees and Undergarments to reduce skin breakdown in people with or at risk of pressure ulcers
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The ReCell Spray‑On Skin system for treating skin loss, scarring and depigmentation after burn injury (MTG21)
Evidence-based recommendations on the ReCell Spray-On Skin system for treating skin loss, scarring and depigmentation after burn injury
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Smoking: preventing uptake in children and young people (PH14)
This guideline covers anti-smoking mass-media campaigns, for example, on TV, in newspapers and online. It also covers measures to prevent tobacco being sold to children and young people. The aim is to help prevent children and young people from taking up smoking.
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Maternal and child nutrition (PH11)
This guideline covers the nutrition of pregnant women, including women who are planning to become pregnant, mothers and other carers of children aged under 5 and their children. In particular, it aims to address disparities in the nutrition of low-income and other disadvantaged groups compared with the general population.
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Oral health: local authorities and partners (PH55)
This guideline covers improving oral health by developing and implementing a strategy that meets the needs of people in the local community. It aims to promote and protect people’s oral health by improving their diet and oral hygiene, and by encouraging them to visit the dentist regularly.
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Physical activity: exercise referral schemes (PH54)
This guideline covers exercise referral schemes for people aged 19 and older, in particular, those who are inactive or sedentary. The aim is to encourage people to be physically active.
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The geko device for reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (MTG19)
Evidence-based recommendations on the geko device for reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism
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Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese adults (PH53)
This guideline covers multi-component lifestyle weight management services including programmes, courses, clubs or groups provided by the public, private and voluntary sector. The aim is to help people lose weight and become more physically active to reduce the risk of diseases associated with obesity. This includes coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and various cancers.
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Contraceptive services for under 25s (PH51)
This guideline covers contraceptive services for under-25s. It aims to ensure all under-25s are given advice and information on all types of contraception. This includes additional tailored support to meet the particular needs and choices of those who are socially disadvantaged or who may find it difficult to use these services.
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Needle and syringe programmes (PH52)
This guideline covers needle and syringe programmes for people (including those under 16) who inject drugs. The main aim is to reduce the transmission of viruses and other infections caused by sharing injecting equipment, such as HIV, hepatitis B and C. In turn, this will reduce the prevalence of blood-borne viruses and bacterial infections, so benefiting wider society.
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Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working (PH50)
This guideline covers planning and delivering multi-agency services for domestic violence and abuse. It aims to help identify, prevent and reduce domestic violence and abuse among women and men in heterosexual or same-sex relationships, and among young people.
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Behaviour change: individual approaches (PH49)
This guideline covers changing health-damaging behaviours among people aged 16 and over using interventions such as goals and planning, feedback and monitoring, and social support. It aims to help tackle a range of behaviours including alcohol misuse, poor eating patterns, lack of physical activity, unsafe sexual behaviour and smoking.
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Smoking: acute, maternity and mental health services (PH48)
This guideline covers helping people to stop smoking in acute, maternity and mental health services. It promotes smokefree policies and services and recommends effective ways to help people stop smoking or to abstain from smoking while using or working in secondary care settings.
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Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people (PH47)
This guideline covers lifestyle weight management services for children and young people aged under 18 who are overweight or obese. It advises how to deliver effective weight management programmes that support children and young people to change their lifestyle and manage their weight.
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Smoking: harm reduction (PH45)
This guideline covers reducing harm from smoking. It aims to help people, particularly those who are highly dependent on nicotine, who:
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BMI: preventing ill health and premature death in black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups (PH46)
This guideline covers the link between body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference and the risk of disease among adults from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups in the UK. The aim was to determine whether lower cut-off points should be used for these groups as a trigger for lifestyle interventions to prevent conditions such as diabetes, myocardial infarction or stroke.
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Physical activity: brief advice for adults in primary care (PH44)
This guideline covers providing brief advice on physical activity to adults in primary care. It aims to improve health and wellbeing by raising awareness of the importance of physical activity and encouraging people to increase or maintain their activity level.
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Hepatitis B and C testing: people at risk of infection (PH43)
This guideline covers raising awareness of and testing for hepatitis B and C infection. It aims to ensure that people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection are tested.
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WatchBP Home A for opportunistically detecting atrial fibrillation during diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension (MTG13)
Evidence-based recommendations on the WatchBP Home A for opportunistically detecting atrial fibrillation during diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension
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Physical activity: walking and cycling (PH41)
This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes.
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Social and emotional wellbeing: early years (PH40)
This guideline covers supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable children under 5 through home visiting, childcare and early education. It aims to optimise care for young children who need extra support because they have or are at risk of social or emotional problems.
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Smokeless tobacco: South Asian communities (PH39)
This guideline covers people living in England with ancestral links to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka who use traditional South Asian varieties of smokeless tobacco. The aim is to help them stop using tobacco that is placed in the mouth or nose (but not burned). It does not include oral snuff products that are sucked.
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Mega Soft Patient Return Electrode for use during monopolar electrosurgery (MTG11)
Evidence-based recommendations on the Mega Soft Patient Return Electrode for use during monopolar electrosurgery
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Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control (PH36)
This quality improvement guide was produced by NICE, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Its aim is twofold: to reduce the risk of harm from healthcare-associated infections for patients, staff and visitors; and to reduce the costs associated with preventable infection.
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The MIST Therapy system for the promotion of wound healing (MTG5)
Evidence-based recommendations on the MIST Therapy system for the promotion of wound healing
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Ambulight PDT for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer (MTG6)
Evidence-based recommendations on Ambulight PDT for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer