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Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control (PH36)
This quality improvement guide was produced by NICE, in partnership with Public Health England (PHE). 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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Sections for PH36
- Overview
- Introduction
- Quality improvement statement 1: Board-level leadership to prevent HCAIs
- Quality improvement statement 2: Be a learning organisation
- Quality improvement statement 3: HCAI surveillance
- Quality improvement statement 4: Workforce capacity and capability
- Quality improvement statement 5: Environmental cleanliness
- Quality improvement statement 6: Multi-agency working to reduce HCAIs
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 statements
- 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
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.
What interventions are effective and cost effective in supporting return to work, in all workplaces including micro-, small- and...
cost-effective interventions to help older employees stay in or re-enter work? For example, to overcome the problems of a change in job...
Improving outcomes for people with skin tumours including melanoma (CSG8)
This guideline covers how healthcare services for people with skin cancers should be organised. It aims to improve diagnosis and care by recommending which healthcare professionals should be involved and at which stage.
Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing (QS148)
This quality standard covers community engagement approaches to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities, and initiatives to change behaviours that harm people’s health. This includes building on the strengths and capabilities of communities, helping them to identify their needs and working with them to design and deliver initiatives and improve equity.
This guideline covers the planning and delivery of person-centred care for older people living in their own homes (known as home care or domiciliary care). It aims to promote older people's independence and to ensure safe and consistently high quality home care services.
Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings (NG53)
This guideline covers the period before, during and after a person is admitted to, and discharged from, a mental health hospital. It aims to help people who use mental health services, and their families and carers, to have a better experience of transition by improving the way it’s planned and carried out.
Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care (CG139)
This guideline covers preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections in children, young people and adults in primary and community care settings. It provides a blueprint for the infection prevention and control precautions that should be applied by everyone involved in delivering NHS care and treatment.
This guideline covers rehabilitation after stroke for over 16s. It aims to ensure people are assessed for common problems and conditions linked to stroke, and get the care and therapy they need. It includes recommendations on the organisation and delivery of rehabilitation in hospital and the community.
what is the acceptability of strengths and rights-based approaches to social work assessment and what are the barriers and facilitators...
This guideline covers complex rehabilitation needs after traumatic injury, including assessment and goal setting, rehabilitation plans and programmes, physical, psychological and cognitive rehabilitation, rehabilitation for specific injuries, coordination of rehabilitation in hospital, at discharge and in the community, and commissioning and organising rehabilitation services.
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.
COVID-19 rapid guideline: haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (NG164)
The purpose of this guideline is to maximise the safety of patients who need haemopoietic stem cell transplantation and make the best use of NHS resources, while protecting staff from infection.
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working in organisations where employees are not centrally located to return to work after long-term sickness absence in the UK? Any...
Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NG22)
This guideline covers planning and delivering social care and support for older people who have multiple long-term conditions. It promotes an integrated and person-centred approach to delivering effective health and social care services.
This quality standard covers the health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people (from birth to 18 years) and care leavers (including young people planning to leave care or under leaving care provisions). It is for all settings and services that work with and care for looked-after children and young people, wherever they are living (for example, with family or friends, with foster families or in residential care). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS31
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Warm, nurturing care
- Quality statement 2: Collaborative working between services and professionals
- Quality statement 3: Stability and quality of placements
- Quality statement 4: Support to explore and make sense of identity and relationships
- Quality statement 5: Support from specialist and dedicated services
- Quality statement 6: Continuity of services for placements outside the local authority or health boundary
- Quality statement 7: Support to fulfil potential
This guideline covers the care and support of adults receiving social care in their own homes, residential care and community settings. It aims to help people understand what care they can expect and to improve their experience by supporting them to make decisions about their care.
This guideline covers a set of principles that can be used to help people change their behaviour. The aim is for practitioners to use these principles to encourage people to adopt a healthier lifestyle by, for example, stopping smoking, adopting a healthy diet and being more physically active.
This quality standard covers care for women of any age (including girls and young women under 18) who request an abortion. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS199
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Access to abortion services
- Quality statement 2: Choice of abortion procedure
- Quality statement 3: Waiting time for an abortion
- Quality statement 4: Early medical abortion
- Quality statement 5: Contraception
- Quality statement 6: Support after an abortion
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Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people: recognition and management (CG155)
This guideline covers recognising and managing psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people. It aims to improve early recognition of psychosis and schizophrenia so that children and young people can be offered the treatment and care they need to live with the condition.
This quality standard covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children’s to adults’ services in all settings where transitions from children’s to adults’ health or social care services take place. It covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. This includes young people with mental health problems, disabilities and long-term, life-limiting or complex needs, rare diseases and those in secure settings or under the care of local authorities. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS140
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Planning transition
- Quality statement 2: Coordinated transition plan
- Quality statement 3: Annual meeting
- Quality statement 4: Named worker
- Quality statement 5: Meeting a practitioner in adults' services
- Quality statement 6: Missed initial appointments after transfer to adults' services
- Update information
This guideline covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children's to adults' services. It aims to help young people and their carers have a better experience of transition by improving the way it’s planned and carried out. It covers both health and social care.
Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NG183)
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.
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.
This quality standard covers managing medicines safely and effectively in care homes. It includes processes for prescribing, handling and administering medicines for adults, young people, and children living in care homes. It also includes providing care and support relating to medicines. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings (NG105)
This guideline covers ways to reduce suicide and help people bereaved or affected by suicides. It aims to:
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.
This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes.
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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Sections for QS175
- Quality statements
- 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
- Update information
This guideline covers the transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care homes for adults with social care needs. It aims to improve people's experience of admission to, and discharge from, hospital by better coordination of health and social care services.
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.
Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (NG209)
This guideline covers support to stop smoking for everyone aged 12 and over, and help to reduce people's harm from smoking if they are not ready to stop in one go. It also covers ways to prevent children, young people and young adults aged 24 and under from taking up smoking.
technique. For example, experimental and meta-analytic work could clarify which behaviour change techniques work when, and...
Vibegron for treating symptoms of overactive bladder syndrome (TA999)
Evidence-based recommendations on vibegron (Obgemsa) for treating symptoms of overactive bladder syndrome in adults.
This guideline covers how to make shared decision making part of everyday care in all healthcare settings. It promotes ways for healthcare professionals and people using services to work together to make decisions about treatment and care. It includes recommendations on training, communicating risks, benefits and consequences, using decision aids, and how to embed shared decision making in organisational culture and practices.
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve ways of finding people who have TB in the community and recommends that everyone under 65 with latent TB should be treated. It describes how TB services should be organised, including the role of the TB control board.
and service delivery: How can practitioners, institutions and organisations work together to improve systems leadership that impacts...
This guideline covers methods for monitoring the wellbeing of the baby during labour. It includes risk assessment to determine the appropriate level of fetal monitoring, using clinical assessment in addition to fetal monitoring, and interpreting and acting on monitoring findings.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve awareness and understanding about ME/CFS and when to suspect it, so that people are diagnosed earlier. It includes recommendations on diagnosis, assessment and care planning, safeguarding, access to care and managing ME/CFS and its symptoms.
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.
Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis and management (CG142)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder (autism, Asperger’s syndrome and atypical autism) in people aged 18 and over. It aims to improve access and engagement with interventions and services, and the experience of care, for people with autism.
Sexually transmitted infections: condom distribution schemes (NG68)
This guideline covers condom distribution schemes. The aim is to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In addition, these schemes can provide a good introduction to broader sexual and reproductive health services, especially for younger people, and help prevent unplanned pregnancies.
Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management (CG178)
This guideline covers recognising and managing psychosis and schizophrenia in adults. It aims to improve care through early recognition and treatment, and by focusing on long-term recovery. It also recommends checking for coexisting health problems and providing support for family members and carers.
This quality standard covers health and social care services for adults, young people and children with autism. It includes assessment and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, and care and support for people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS51
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Diagnostic assessment by an autism team
- Quality statement 2: Assessment and diagnosis
- Quality statement 3: Personalised plan
- Quality statement 4: Coordination of care and support
- Quality statement 5: Treating the core features of autism: psychosocial interventions
- Quality statement 6: Treating the core features of autism: medication
- Quality statement 7: Assessing possible triggers for behaviour that challenges
Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities (NG96)
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.
Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness (NG214)
This guideline covers providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services.
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.
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.