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This quality standard covers the prevention or delay of harmful use of drugs by children, young people and adults most likely to start using drugs, or already experimenting or using drugs occasionally. This includes illegal psychoactive substances, solvents, volatile substances, image- and performance-enhancing drugs, prescription-only medicines and over-the-counter medicines. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Assessment of looked-after children and young people
- Quality statement 2: Assessment of care leavers
- Quality statement 3: Assessment of children and young people in contact with youth offending services
- Quality statement 4: Information and advice for adults
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This guideline covers the early and longer-term (rehabilitation) management of acute coronary syndromes. These include ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and unstable angina. The guideline aims to improve survival and quality of life for people who have a heart attack or unstable angina.
This guideline covers when to offer and discuss caesarean birth, procedural aspects of the operation, and care after caesarean birth. It aims to improve the consistency and quality of care for women and pregnant people who are thinking about having a caesarean birth or have had a caesarean birth in the past and are now pregnant again.
Training resources for those working in social care
Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (QS163)
This quality standard covers recognising, assessing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal justice system (this includes police contact, court and prison custody, street triage, liaison and diversion services, and probation services). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Evidence-based recommendations on transvaginal laser therapy for urogenital atrophy. This involves using a laser in the vagina to increase its strength and elasticity, to improve symptoms of urogenital atrophy.
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Common mental health problems: identification and pathways to care (CG123)
This guideline covers care for people aged 18 and over with common mental health problems, with a focus on primary care. It aims to improve access to services for adults and how mental health problems are identified and assessed, and makes recommendations on local care pathways.
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for Peyronie's disease (IPG29)
Evidence-based recommendations on extracorporeal shockwave therapy for Peyronie's disease. This involves using vibrations caused by sound waves to treat the affected tissue.
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Evidence-based recommendations on vortioxetine (Brintellix) for treating major depressive episodes in adults.
Focal therapy using cryoablation for localised prostate cancer (IPG423)
Evidence-based recommendations on focal therapy using cryoablation for localised stage prostate cancer. This involves using freezing (cryotherapy) needles to find and destroy only the cancerous part of the prostate.
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NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on Aquablation robotic therapy for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia .
The OraQuick HCV point‑of‑care test for rapid detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies (MIB24)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on the OraQuick HCV point-of-care test for rapid detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies
This guideline covers the short-term management of violence and aggression in adults (aged 18 and over), young people (aged 13 to 17) and children (aged 12 and under). It is relevant for mental health, health and community settings. The guideline aims to safeguard both staff and people who use services by helping to prevent violent situations and providing guidance to manage them safely when they occur.
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.
Service user experience in adult mental health services (QS14)
This quality standard covers improving the experience of people using adult NHS mental health services. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Empathy, dignity and respect
- Quality statement 2: Decision making
- Quality statement 3: Involvement to improve services
- Quality statement 4: Contacts for ongoing care
- Quality statement 5: Access to services
- Quality statement 6: Joint care planning
- Quality statement 7: Inpatient contact with staff
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.
This guideline covers care for people with a family history of breast, ovarian or another related (prostate or pancreatic) cancer. It aims to improve the long-term health of these families by describing strategies to reduce the risk of and promote early detection of breast cancer (including genetic testing and mammography). It also includes advice on treatments (tamoxifen, raloxifene) and surgery (mastectomy).
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 preventing, assessing and managing mental health problems in people with learning disabilities in all settings (including health, social care, education, and forensic and criminal justice). It aims to improve assessment and support for mental health conditions, and help people with learning disabilities and their families and carers to be involved in their care.
This guideline covers the planning, delivery and review of social work interventions for adults who have complex needs. It promotes ways for social work professionals, other care staff and people with complex needs to work together to make decisions about care and support.
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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Sections for QS8
- 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
This guideline covers the routine postnatal care that women and their babies should receive in the first 8 weeks after the birth. It includes the organisation and delivery of postnatal care, identifying and managing common and serious health problems in women and their babies, how to help parents form strong relationships with their babies, and baby feeding. The recommendations on emotional attachment and baby feeding also cover the antenatal period.
This guideline covers identifying, treating and managing depression in people aged 18 and over. It recommends treatments for first episodes of depression and further-line treatments, and provides advice on preventing relapse, and managing chronic depression, psychotic depression and depression with a coexisting diagnosis of personality disorder.
Darvadstrocel for treating complex perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease (TA556)
Evidence-based recommendations on darvadstrocel (Alofisel) for previously treated complex perianal fistulas in adults with non-active or mildly active luminal Crohn’s disease.
people and families Abuse and neglect can have a long-lasting impact on the health and wellbeing of children and young people. It is...
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 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 guideline covers interventions and support for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. It highlights the importance of understanding the cause of behaviour that challenges, and performing thorough assessments so that steps can be taken to help people change their behaviour and improve their quality of life. The guideline also covers support and intervention for family members or carers.
Summary of the evidence on bevacizumab 7.5 mg/kg with paclitaxel and carboplatin for the first-line treatment of advanced ovarian cancer..
Using NICE guidance in social work: examples for principal social workers
A range of fictional scenarios which show how NICE's guidelines and quality standards could be used by principal social workers.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing urinary tract infections in adults aged 16 and over. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Diagnosing urinary tract infections in women under 65
- Quality statement 2: Diagnosing urinary tract infections in adults with catheters
- Quality statement 3: Antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria in men and non-pregnant women
- Quality statement 4: Duration of antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infection
- Quality statement 5: Referring adults with recurrent urinary tract infection
- Update information
- About this quality standard
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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abortion does not increase the risk of infertility, breast cancer or mental health issues. You can usually choose whether to have a...
Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance (CG192)
This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating mental health problems in women who are planning to have a baby, are pregnant, or have had a baby or been pregnant in the past year. It covers depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, drug- and alcohol-use disorders and severe mental illness (such as psychosis, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia). It promotes early detection and good management of mental health problems to improve women’s quality of life during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth.
This quality standard covers recognising, assessing and treating mental health problems in women planning, during or after pregnancy (up to a year after childbirth). It also covers the organisation of mental health services for women during and after pregnancy. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS115
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Valproate
- Quality statement 2: Pre-conception information
- Quality statement 3: Information for pregnant women
- Quality statement 4: Asking about mental health and wellbeing
- Quality statement 5: Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Quality statement 6: Psychological interventions
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.
People's experience using adult social care services (QS182)
This quality standard covers the experience of adults using social care services. It applies to all settings where people use social care services, including people's own homes, residential care and community settings. Its aim is to help people understand what care they can expect and to improve their experience by supporting them to make decisions about their care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Abortion care. Patient decision aid on choosing between medical or surgical abortion before 14 weeks
abortion does not increase the risk of infertility, breast cancer or mental health issues. You can usually choose whether to have a...
This quality standard covers routine postnatal care in the first 8 weeks after birth. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Communication between healthcare professionals at transfer of care
- Quality statement 2: Information and advice about babies' feeding
- Quality statement 3: Symptoms and signs of illness in babies
- Quality statement 4: Face-to-face feeding support
- Quality statement 5: Safer practices for bed sharing
- Quality statement 6: GP postnatal check for women
- Update information
Advocacy services for adults with health and social care needs (NG227)
This guideline covers advocacy for people using health and social care services in all adult settings (including young people under 18 using adult services). It describes how to commission and deliver effective advocacy, as well as identifying who should be offered advocacy (including who is legally entitled to it). It also covers monitoring and improving advocacy services, and training and skills for advocates and practitioners.
A range of fictional scenarios which show how NICE's guidelines and quality standards could be used by social workers in different settings.
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.
This guideline covers care and support for adults with cerebral palsy. It aims to improve health and wellbeing, promote access to services and support participation and independent living.
Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people (QS59)
This quality standard covers recognising and managing antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS59
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Early intervention
- Quality statement 2: Comprehensive assessment
- Quality statement 3: Improving access to services
- Quality statement 4: Parent or carer training
- Quality statement 5: Multimodal interventions
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring adverse effects of pharmacological interventions
- Update information
This guideline covers managing ulcerative colitis in children, young people and adults. It aims to help professionals to provide consistent high-quality care and it highlights the importance of advice and support for people with ulcerative colitis.
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 managing Crohn’s disease in children, young people and adults. It aims to reduce people’s symptoms and maintain or improve their quality of life.
This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression) in children, young people and adults. The recommendations apply to bipolar I, bipolar II, mixed affective and rapid cycling disorders. It aims to improve access to treatment and quality of life in people with bipolar disorder.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing Parkinson's disease in people aged 18 and over. It aims to improve care from the time of diagnosis, including monitoring and managing symptoms, providing information and support, and palliative care.
This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity at the centre of the decision-making process.