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High-throughput non-invasive prenatal testing for fetal RHD genotype (DG25)
Evidence-based recommendations on high-throughput non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal RHD genotype
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 statements
- 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
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This guideline covers mid-life approaches to delay or prevent the onset of dementia, disability and frailty in later life. The guideline aims to increase the amount of time that people can be independent, healthy and active in later life.
Ovarian cancer: identifying and managing familial and genetic risk (NG241)
This guideline covers assessing the familial and genetic risk of having a pathogenic variant associated with ovarian cancer in adults.
newborns Women can develop mental ill health for the first time during pregnancy, and pre-existing mental...
Sapropterin for treating hyperphenylalaninaemia in phenylketonuria (TA729)
Evidence-based recommendations on sapropterin for treating hyperphenylalaninaemia in phenylketonuria.
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.
Evidence-based recommendations on raloxifene for the primary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women.
Healthy start vitamins: special report on cost effectiveness (ECD5)
Healthy start vitamins: special report on cost effectiveness
Evidence-based recommendations on raloxifene and teriparatide for preventing osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women who have osteoporosis.
This guideline covers mental health rehabilitation for adults with complex psychosis. It aims to ensure people can have rehabilitation when they need it and promotes a positive approach to long-term recovery. It includes recommendations on organising rehabilitation services, assessment and care planning, delivering programmes and interventions, and meeting people’s physical healthcare needs.
Topotecan for the treatment of recurrent and stage IVB cervical cancer (TA183)
Evidence-based recommendations on topotecan for treating recurrent and stage IVB cervical cancer in adults.
Ertugliflozin as monotherapy or with metformin for treating type 2 diabetes (TA572)
Evidence-based recommendations on ertugliflozin (Steglatro) as monotherapy or with metformin for treating type 2 diabetes in adults.
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 managing osteoporosis in adults (aged 18 and over), including assessing risk and preventing fragility fractures. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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HIV testing: increasing uptake among people who may have undiagnosed HIV (NG60)
This guideline covers how to increase the uptake of HIV testing in primary and secondary care, specialist sexual health services and the community. It describes how to plan and deliver services that are tailored to the local prevalence of HIV, promote awareness of HIV testing and increase opportunities to offer testing to people who may have undiagnosed HIV.
Everolimus with exemestane for treating advanced breast cancer after endocrine therapy (TA421)
Evidence-based recommendations on everolimus (Afinitor) for treating advanced breast cancer in adults after endocrine therapy.
This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing physical health problems of people in prison. It aims to improve health and wellbeing in the prison population by promoting more coordinated care and more effective approaches to prescribing, dispensing and supervising medicines.
Abaloparatide for treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women [ID882]
In development [GID-TA10071] Expected publication date: TBC
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 quality standard covers diagnosing and managing spondyloarthritis in adults aged 16 and over. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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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Summary of the evidence on bevacizumab 7.5 mg/kg with paclitaxel and carboplatin for the first-line treatment of advanced ovarian cancer..
way that would have been unthinkable to our grandparents. This means that women and their partners have higher expectations about the...
Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese adults (PH53)
This guideline covers multi-component lifestyle weight management services including programmes, courses, clubs or groups provided by the public, private and voluntary sector. The aim is to help people lose weight and become more physically active to reduce the risk of diseases associated with obesity. This includes coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and various cancers.
This quality standard covers preventing and treating surgical site infections. It covers adults, young people and children having a surgical procedure that involves a cut to the skin in all healthcare settings. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Personal preparation for surgery
- Quality statement 2: Antibiotic prophylaxis
- Quality statement 3: Patient temperature
- Quality statement 4: Intraoperative staff practices
- Quality statement 5: Information and advice on wound care
- Quality statement 6: Treatment of surgical site infection
- Quality statement 7: Surveillance
This guideline covers how donor milk banks should recruit, screen and support women who donate breast milk. It also covers how milk banks should handle and process the breast milk they receive from donors. It aims to improve the safety of donor milk and operation of donor milk services.
Evidence-based recommendations on ribociclib (Kisqali) for treating hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in adults who have had previous endocrine therapy.
This guideline covers helping adults and young people over 16 who are dependent on opioids to stop using drugs. It aims to reduce illicit drug use and improve people’s physical and mental health, relationships and employment.
Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (NG66)
This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal justice system. It aims to improve mental health and wellbeing in this population by establishing principles for assessment and management, and promoting more coordinated care planning and service organisation across the criminal justice system.
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High-sensitivity troponin tests for the early rule out of NSTEMI (DG40)
Evidence-based recommendations on high-sensitivity troponin tests for the early rule out of NSTEMI (non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction)
This guideline covers new buildings and communal outdoor areas. The aim is to ensure there are enough shady areas to protect people from overexposure to the sun.
Evidence-based recommendations on topotecan, pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride (Caelyx; PLDH), paclitaxel, trabectedin (Yondelis) and gemcitabine. These drugs are for people with ovarian cancer that has come back some time after it was first treated.
This guideline covers how to identify adults at high risk of type 2 diabetes. It aims to remind practitioners that age is no barrier to being at high risk of, or developing, the condition. It also aims to help them provide those at high risk with an effective and appropriate intensive lifestyle-change programme to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. The recommendations in this guideline can be used alongside the NHS Health Check programme .
This guideline covers managing COVID-19 in babies, children, young people and adults in community and hospital settings. It includes recommendations on communication, assessment, therapeutics for COVID-19, non-invasive respiratory support, preventing and managing acute complications, and identifying and managing co-infections.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing abdominal aortic aneurysms. It aims to improve care by helping people who are at risk to get tested, specifying how often to monitor asymptomatic aneurysms, and identifying when aneurysm repair is needed and which procedure will work best.
This quality standard covers identifying and managing familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) in children, young people and adults. FH is a type of high cholesterol that runs in families and increases the risk of heart disease. The quality standard describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Diagnosis
- Quality statement 2: Specialist referral
- Quality statement 3: DNA testing
- Quality statement 4: Diagnosis in children under 10 years
- Quality statement 5: Cascade testing
- Quality statement 6: Drug treatment in adults
- Quality statement 7: Drug treatment in children
This quality standard covers assessing and managing heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia), including suspected or confirmed fibroids and adenomyosis. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the care of people with breast cancer after they have been referred to a specialist team. It includes the management of early (ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive), locally advanced and advanced breast cancer; recurrent breast cancer; and familial breast cancer. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Timely diagnosis
- Quality statement 2: Preoperative MRI scan
- Quality statement 3: Gene expression profiling
- Quality statement 4: ER and HER2 receptor status
- Quality statement 5: Multidisciplinary team management of metastatic breast cancer
- Quality statement 6: Key worker
midwife visit after transfer of care affect unplanned or emergency health contacts for women and babies? Any explanatory...
This guideline covers using colonoscopy to check for signs of bowel cancer in people aged 18 and over with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease (types of inflammatory bowel disease) or adenomas (also known as polyps). It aims to prevent cancer and prolong life by offering advice on identifying early bowel cancer in adults most at risk.
obstetric populations share the aim of NICE guideline PH27: to help all women who have a baby to achieve and maintain a healthy weight...
Neuropathic pain in adults: pharmacological management in non-specialist settings (CG173)
This guideline covers managing neuropathic pain (nerve pain) with pharmacological treatments (drugs) in adults in non-specialist settings. It aims to improve quality of life for people with conditions such as neuralgia, shingles and diabetic neuropathy by reducing pain and promoting increased participation in all aspects of daily living. The guideline sets out how drug treatments for neuropathic pain differ from traditional pain management.
Evidence-based recommendations on the bisphosphonates alendronic acid, ibandronic acid, risedronate sodium and zoledronic acid for treating osteoporosis.
Leukomed Sorbact for preventing surgical site infection (MTG55)
Evidence-based recommendations on Leukomed Sorbact for preventing surgical site infection after caesarean section or vascular surgery.
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This guideline covers identifying, assessing and managing alcohol-use disorders (harmful drinking and alcohol dependence) in adults and young people aged 10 to 17 years. It aims to reduce harms (such as liver disease, heart problems, depression and anxiety) from alcohol by improving assessment and setting goals for reducing alcohol consumption.
This guideline covers managing stable angina in people aged 18 and over. It outlines the importance of addressing the person’s concerns about stable angina and the roles of medical therapy and revascularisation.
Borderline personality disorder: recognition and management (CG78)
This guideline covers recognising and managing borderline personality disorder. It aims to help people with borderline personality disorder to manage feelings of distress, anxiety, worthlessness and anger, and to maintain stable and close relationships with others.
Choosing between medical or surgical abortion from 14 weeks up to 24 weeks Most women and girls who have an abortion can choose how it...
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.