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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 quality standard covers preventing, assessing and managing pressure ulcers (bed sores) in adults, young people and children. It includes risk assessment and support to prevent pressure ulcers. It applies to all settings, including hospitals, care homes (with and without nursing care) and people’s own homes.
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Sections for QS89
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- Quality statement 1: Pressure ulcer risk assessment in hospitals and care homes with nursing
- Quality statement 2: Pressure ulcer risk assessment by community nursing services
- Quality statement 3: Pressure ulcer risk reassessment
- Quality statement 4: Skin assessment
- Quality statement 5: Advice on repositioning
- Quality statement 6: Help with repositioning
- Quality statement 7: Information on preventing pressure ulcers
Guide for lay members who we've invited to sit on one of NICE's committees, panels, or groups.
Research to access pathway for investigational drugs for COVID-19 (RAPID C-19)
RAPID C-19’s role in reviewing potential COVID-19 treatments has now ended because we have moved back to routine commissioning arrangements for these treatments.
Metastatic malignant disease of unknown primary origin in adults: diagnosis and management (CG104)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing secondary cancer in people aged 18 and over when the site of the primary cancer is unknown. This includes people who have had treatment for cancer before. It aims to improve quality of life by offering advice on tests for identifying the site of the primary cancer and options for managing the person’s condition.
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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MRI-guided focused ultrasound subthalamotomy for treating Parkinson's (IPG797)
Evidence-based recommendations on MRI-guided focused ultrasound subthalamotomy for treating Parkinson’s. This involves using ultrasound to destroy tissue in an area of the brain linked to Parkinson’s symptoms.
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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 diagnosing and managing drug allergy in all age groups. It aims to make it easier for professionals to tell when someone is having an allergic reaction, by specifying the key signs and patterns to look out for. It also makes recommendations on improving people’s understanding of their drug allergies, and ensuring these are recorded properly in their medical records.
Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management (NG59)
This guideline covers assessing and managing low back pain and sciatica in people aged 16 and over. It outlines physical, psychological, pharmacological and surgical treatments to help people manage their low back pain and sciatica in their daily life. The guideline aims to improve people’s quality of life by promoting the most effective forms of care for low back pain and sciatica.
Fetoscopic prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus (IPG667)
Evidence-based recommendations on fetoscopic prenatal repair of open neural tube defects in the fetus. This involves keyhole surgery through the woman’s abdomen to close the gap in the baby’s spine.
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Open prenatal repair for open neural tube defects in the fetus (IPG668)
Evidence-based recommendations on open prenatal repair of open neural tube defects in the fetus. This involves open surgery through the woman’s abdomen to close the gap in the baby’s spine.
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Early years: promoting health and wellbeing in under 5s (QS128)
This quality standard covers services to support the health, and social and emotional wellbeing of children under 5, including vulnerable children who may need extra support. It includes health visitor services, childcare and early years education, and early intervention services in children’s social care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on narrow band imaging for Barrett’s oesophagus .