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This quality standard covers recognising and managing faltering growth in babies (aged up to 1 year) and preschool children (aged over 1 year). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in the community. It includes identifying people at risk of malnutrition and providing nutrition support, including dietary changes and artificial nutrition support given through feeding tubes (enteral nutrition) or directly into a vein (parenteral nutrition). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Introduction and overview
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Screening for the risk of malnutrition
- Quality statement 2: Treatment
- Quality statement 3: Documentation and communication of results and nutrition support goals
- Quality statement 4: Self-management of artificial nutrition support
- Quality statement 5: Review
- Using the quality standard
This quality standard covers preventing bacterial infection in newborn babies, treating pregnant women and pregnant people whose babies are at risk of infection, and treating newborn babies with suspected or confirmed bacterial infection. It includes when to give antibiotics to prevent and treat neonatal bacterial infection and describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. This includes early-onset (within 72 hours of birth) and late-onset (between 72 hours and 28 days following birth) neonatal infection.
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- Quality statement 1: Intrapartum antibiotics
- Quality statement 2: Assessment for early-onset neonatal infection
- Quality statement 3: Prompt antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 4: Reassessing antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 5: Information and support for parents and carers
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse (QS188)
This quality standard covers the assessment, management and care provided for people aged 14 and over who have coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Spondyloarthritis in over 16s: diagnosis and management (NG65)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing spondyloarthritis that is suspected or confirmed in adults who are 16 years or older. It aims to raise awareness of the features of spondyloarthritis and provide clear advice on what action to take when people with signs and symptoms first present in healthcare settings. It also provides advice on the range of treatments available.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing Lyme disease in people of all ages. It also includes raising public awareness about prevention. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the safe and effective use of medicines. It covers people of all ages who are taking medicines, including those who are not getting the full benefit from their medicines. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Shared decision-making
- Quality statement 2: Patient involvement in reporting medicines-related patient safety incidents
- Quality statement 3: Learning from medicines-related patient safety incidents
- Quality statement 4: Medicines reconciliation in acute settings
- Quality statement 5: Medicines reconciliation in primary care
- Quality statement 6: Structured medication review
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing stroke in adults (over 16). It includes diagnosis, initial management, acute-phase care, rehabilitation and long-term support for people with stroke. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Prompt admission to specialist acute stroke units
- Quality statement 2: Intensity of stroke rehabilitation
- Quality statement 3: Access to a clinical psychologist
- Quality statement 4: Early supported discharge
- Quality statement 5: Return to work
- Quality statement 6: Regular review of rehabilitation goals
- Quality statement 7: Regular review of health and social care needs
This quality standard covers assessing and managing renal and ureteric stones in children, young people and adults. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers care and support for older people living in their own homes (known as home care or domiciliary care). It covers people aged over 65 using home care services, and may also cover some people under 65 with complex needs. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Person-centred planning
- Quality statement 2: Plan for missed or late visits
- Quality statement 3: Consistent team of home care workers
- Quality statement 4: Length of home care visits
- Quality statement 5: Reviewing the outcomes of the home care plan
- Quality statement 6: Supervision of home care workers
Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (QS169)
This quality standard covers the developmental follow-up of babies, children and young people under 18 years who were born preterm (before 37+0 weeks of pregnancy). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers assessment, treatment, monitoring and care for children, young people and adults with an eating disorder. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Early assessment and treatment
- Quality statement 2: Discussion about psychological treatment options
- Quality statement 3: First-line psychological treatment for binge eating disorder
- Quality statement 4: Bulimia-nervosa-focused family therapy
- Quality statement 5: Coordinated care across services
- Quality statement 6: Risk assessment when moving between services
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and managing rheumatoid arthritis in over 16s. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Learning disability: care and support of people growing older (QS187)
This quality standard covers identifying, assessing and regularly reviewing the care and support needs of people with a learning disability as they grow older. People with a learning disability have many of the same age-related health and social care needs as other people, but this quality standard focuses on the specific challenges associated with their learning disability. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers preventing, detecting and managing acute kidney injury in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Raising awareness in people at risk
- Quality statement 2: Identifying acute kidney injury in people admitted to hospital
- Quality statement 3: Response to acute kidney injury warning stage 2 test result
- Quality statement 4: Response to acute kidney injury warning stage 3 test result
- Quality statement 5: Referral for renal replacement therapy
- Quality statement 6: Clinical review after hospital discharge
- Update information
This quality standard covers referral and assessment for intermediate care and how to deliver the service. It covers bed-based intermediate care, crisis response, home-based intermediate care and reablement. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover rehabilitation for specific conditions.
This quality standard covers care for pregnant women who may be at risk of, or have symptoms and signs of, starting labour and giving birth early (preterm). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Providing information about potential signs and symptoms of preterm labour
- Quality statement 2: Prophylactic vaginal progesterone and prophylactic cervical cerclage
- Quality statement 3: Information for women having a planned preterm birth
- Quality statement 4: Tocolysis for women between 26+0 and 33+6 weeks of pregnancy
- Quality statement 5: Corticosteroids for women between 24+0 and 33+6 weeks of pregnancy
- Quality statement 6: Magnesium sulfate for women between 24+0 and 29+6 weeks of pregnancy
- Update information
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and managing chronic heart failure in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. Statements cover adults with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and adults with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, unless otherwise stated.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide measurement
- Quality statement 2: Specialist assessment
- Quality statement 3: Medication for chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Quality statement 4: Review after changes in medication
- Quality statement 5: Review of people with chronic heart failure
- Quality statement 6: Cardiac rehabilitation
- Update information
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing hypertension (high blood pressure) and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, labour and birth. It also covers advice for women with hypertension who may become pregnant and postnatal care for women who have had hypertension or pre-eclampsia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Pre-pregnancy advice for women with treated hypertension
- Quality statement 2: Antenatal assessment of pre-eclampsia risk
- Quality statement 3: Antenatal blood pressure targets
- Quality statement 4: Assessing women with severe hypertension in pregnancy
- Quality statement 5: Admission to hospital for women with pre-eclampsia
- Quality statement 6: Timing of birth for women with pre-eclampsia
- Quality statement 7: Transfer of information about ongoing management
This quality standard covers the management of colorectal (bowel) cancer in adults. It includes managing local disease and secondary tumours (metastatic disease). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Testing for Lynch syndrome
- Quality statement 2: Discussion about treatment options for early rectal cancer
- Quality statement 3: Testing to guide systemic anti-cancer treatment
- Quality statement 4: Follow-up for detecting local recurrence and distant metastases
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing hip fracture in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Multidisciplinary management
- Quality statement 2: Timing and expertise for surgery
- Quality statement 3: Intracapsular fracture
- Quality statement 4: Trochanteric fracture
- Quality statement 5: Subtrochanteric fracture
- Quality statement 6: Rehabilitation after surgery
- Update information
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing lung cancer in adults. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid modification (QS100)
This quality standard covers identifying and assessing cardiovascular risk in adults (aged 18 and over) and treatment to prevent cardiovascular disease. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Full formal risk assessment using QRISK3
- Quality statement 2: Excluding secondary causes
- Quality statement 3: Lifestyle advice for primary prevention
- Quality statement 4: Discussing risks and benefits of statins for primary prevention
- Quality statement 5: Statins for primary prevention
- Quality statement 6: Statins for secondary prevention
- Quality statement 7: Side effects of high-intensity statins
This guideline covers managing colorectal (bowel) cancer in people aged 18 and over. It aims to improve quality of life and survival for adults with colorectal cancer through management of local disease and secondary tumours (metastatic disease).
Implementing an oxygen weaning guideline for babies with chronic neonatal lung disease
neonatal lung disease (CNLD). At the time, there was no regional pathway or guideline for the weaning of long term oxygen therapy in...
This quality standard covers the diagnosis and management of cataracts, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the prevention of sight loss. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Referral – chronic open angle glaucoma and related conditions
- Quality statement 2: Referral for cataract surgery
- Quality statement 3: Treatment – late age-related macular degeneration (wet active)
- Quality statement 4: Monitoring late age-related macular degeneration (wet active)
- Quality statement 5: Reassessment – chronic open angle glaucoma or related conditions
- Quality statement 6: Certificate of vision impairment
- Update information
Emergency and acute medical care in over 16s: service delivery and organisation (NG94)
This guideline covers organising and delivering emergency and acute medical care for people aged over 16 in the community and in hospital. It aims to reduce the need for hospital admissions by giving advanced training to paramedics and providing community alternatives to hospital care. It also promotes good-quality care in hospital and joint working between health and social services.
Medicines management for people receiving social care in the community (QS171)
This quality standard covers assessing if people need help with their medicines and deciding what medicines support is needed to enable people to manage their medicines. It also includes communication between health and social care staff, to ensure people have the medicines support they need. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Developing NICE guidelines: the manual
This quality standard covers assessing and managing hearing loss in adults (aged 18 and over). It includes people presenting with hearing loss for the first time in adulthood whether it started in adulthood or earlier. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Earwax removal
- Quality statement 2: Sudden onset of hearing loss
- Quality statement 3: Rapid worsening of hearing loss
- Quality statement 4: Audiological assessment
- Quality statement 5: Provision of hearing aids
- Quality statement 6: Follow-up audiology appointment
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and managing head and neck cancer, including cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract in people aged 16 and over. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the clinical assessment and management of depression in adults aged 18 and over. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Assessment
- Quality statement 2: Discussing treatment options
- Quality statement 3: Preventing relapse
- Quality statement 4: Stopping antidepressants
- Quality statement 5: Access to services for adults from minority ethnic backgrounds
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Intrapartum care: existing medical conditions and obstetric complications (QS192)
This quality standard covers care during labour and birth for women who need extra support because they have a medical condition or complications in their current or previous pregnancy. It also covers women who have had no antenatal care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover the antenatal and postnatal care of pregnant women with mental health conditions, hypertension in pregnancy, diabetes in pregnancy or the organisation of care for pregnant women with complex social factors.
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- Quality statement 1: Involving women in care planning
- Quality statement 2: Composition of the multidisciplinary team
- Quality statement 3: Heart disease – risk assessment
- Quality statement 4: Assessment and antibiotic treatment for suspected sepsis
- Quality statement 5: Women with no antenatal care
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers care and support and services for children, young people and adults with a learning disability (or a learning disability and autism) and behaviour that challenges, and their families and carers. It describes high quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Lead commissioner
- Quality statement 2: Annual health check
- Quality statement 3: Initial assessment of behaviour that challenges
- Quality statement 4: Named lead practitioner
- Quality statement 5: Involving families and carers
- Quality statement 6: Parent-training programmes
- Quality statement 7: Personalised daily activities
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) who are approaching the end of their life. This includes people who are likely to die within 12 months, people with advanced, progressive, incurable conditions and people with life-threatening acute conditions. It also covers support for their families and carers. It includes care provided by health and social care staff in all settings. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
Barrett's oesophagus and stage 1 oesophageal adenocarcinoma: monitoring and management (NG231)
This guideline covers monitoring, treatment and follow-up for people aged 18 and over with Barrett’s oesophagus and stage 1 oesophageal adenocarcinoma. It includes advice on endoscopic and non-endoscopic techniques. It aims to improve outcomes by ensuring the most effective investigations and treatments are used.
This quality standard covers recognising, assessing and managing bipolar disorder in adults (aged 18 and over) in primary and secondary care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Referral for specialist mental health assessment
- Quality statement 2: Personalised care plan
- Quality statement 3: Involving carers in care planning
- Quality statement 4 (developmental): Psychological interventions
- Quality statement 5: Maintaining plasma lithium levels
- Quality statement 6: Valproate
- Quality statement 7: Assessing physical health
This quality standard covers managing prostate cancer in people referred to secondary care or having follow-up for prostate cancer in primary care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Discussion with a named nurse specialist
- Quality statement 2: Treatment options
- Quality statement 3: Combination therapy
- Quality statement 4: Managing adverse effects of treatment
- Quality statement 5: Hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This guideline covers managing acute and chronic pancreatitis in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve quality of life by ensuring that people have the right treatment and follow-up, and get timely information and support after diagnosis.
This quality standard covers admissions into, and discharge from, inpatient hospital settings for adults (aged 18 years and over) with social care needs. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Information sharing on admission
- Quality statement 2: Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Quality statement 3: Coordinated discharge
- Quality statement 4: Discharge plans
- Quality statement 5: Involving carers in discharge planning
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers clinical assessment, prioritising and managing healthcare for adults aged 18 years and over with 2 or more long-term health conditions (multimorbidity). At least 1 of these conditions must be a physical health condition. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the organisation and delivery of emergency and acute medical care in the community and in hospital. It covers adults (16 and over) who seek, or are referred for, emergency NHS care for a suspected or confirmed acute medical emergency. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers the prevention, diagnosis and management of delirium in adults (aged 18 and over) in hospital or long-term care settings (such as residential care or nursing homes). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Assessing recent changes that may indicate delirium
- Quality statement 2: Interventions to prevent delirium
- Quality statement 3: Use of antipsychotic medication for people who are distressed
- Quality statement 4: Information and support
- Quality statement 5: Communication of diagnosis to GPs
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use (NG15)
This guideline covers the effective use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics) in children, young people and adults. It aims to change prescribing practice to help slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and ensure that antimicrobials remain an effective treatment for infection.
This quality standard covers the additional antenatal care for women who are pregnant with twins or triplets that is offered alongside routine antenatal care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Determining chorionicity and amnionicity
- Quality statement 2: Labelling the fetuses
- Quality statement 3: Composition of the multidisciplinary core team
- Quality statement 4: Care planning
- Quality statement 5: Monitoring for fetal complications
- Quality statement 6: Involving a consultant from a tertiary level fetal medicine centre
This quality standard covers the assessment and management of chronic kidney disease in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the diagnosis and initial management of ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage in women in their first trimester (up to 13 completed weeks of pregnancy). It includes assessment and diagnosis for women with suspected early pregnancy loss. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers care after emergency treatment for suspected anaphylaxis, including assessment and referral to specialist allergy services. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Referral to specialist allergy services after emergency treatment
- Quality statement 2: Education in adrenaline auto-injector use
- Quality statement 3: Specialist assessment for venom immunotherapy
- Quality statement 4 (placeholder): Ongoing training in adrenaline auto-injector use
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Suspected neurological conditions: recognition and referral (QS198)
This quality standard covers assessing and referring children (under 16) and adults (16 and over) who have symptoms or signs associated with neurological conditions. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Headaches and 'red flag' symptoms in children
- Quality statement 2: Head size and shape in children
- Quality statement 3: Suspected dystonia in adults
- Quality statement 4: Hallpike manoeuvre for adults
- Quality statement 5: Functional neurological disorders in adults
- Quality statement 6: Individualised care for adults
- About this quality standard