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This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve quality of life by reducing symptoms of PTSD such as anxiety, sleep problems and difficulties with concentration. Recommendations also aim to raise awareness of the condition and improve coordination of care.
mental illness with substance misuse and what are the physical health, social care, housing or other support needs of people with this...
This quality standard covers reducing and preventing tobacco use in adults, young people and children. It includes interventions to discourage people from taking up smoking, tobacco control strategies and smokefree policies. It is particularly relevant to local authorities, schools and colleges, employers and NHS service providers. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Schools and colleges: interventions
- Quality statement 2: Schools and colleges: smokefree grounds
- Quality statement 3: Underage sales
- Quality statement 4: Workplace policy
- Quality statement 5: Healthcare services: employee contracts
- Quality statement 6: Healthcare settings: smokefree grounds
- Quality statement 7: Healthcare settings: nicotine-containing products and stop-smoking pharmacotherapies
Awaiting development Reference number: GID-TA11214 Expected publication date: TBC
Improving supportive and palliative care for adults with cancer (CSG4)
This guideline covers best practice in developing and delivering cancer services for adults. It aims to ensure that people with cancer, and their families and carers, are well informed, cared for and supported from before formal diagnosis onward.
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.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing cystic fibrosis. It specifies how to monitor the condition and manage the symptoms to improve quality of life. There are also detailed recommendations on treating the most common infections in people with cystic fibrosis.
Updates planned and in progress Abortion care Antenatal care - Caesarean birth - Ectopic pregnancy
This quality standard covers assessing and managing psoriasis in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Assessing disease severity
- Quality statement 2: Assessing impact of disease
- Quality statement 3: Referring to specialist services
- Quality statement 4: Assessing cardiovascular risk
- Quality statement 5: Assessing for psoriatic arthritis
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring systemic treatment
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This quality standard covers preventing, assessing, diagnosing and managing skin cancer (melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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supporting young offenders in transition from children's to adults' health and social care services? Any explanatory notes(if...
In development Reference number: GID-MT526 Expected publication date: TBC
and sensitivity that can be made available and used in routine health, social care and education settings. Any explanatory notes(if...
This guideline covers the routine antenatal care that women and their babies should receive. It aims to ensure that pregnant women are offered regular check-ups, information and support.
problems in people with learning disabilities, for routine use in primary care, social care and education settings. Any...