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This guideline covers safe and effective use of medicines in health and social care for people taking 1 or more medicines. It aims to ensure that medicines provide the greatest possible benefit to people by encouraging medicines reconciliation, medication review, and the use of patient decision aids.
This guideline covers how general dental practice teams can convey advice about oral hygiene and the use of fluoride. It also covers diet, smoking, smokeless tobacco and alcohol intake.
Physical activity: brief advice for adults in primary care (PH44)
This guideline covers providing brief advice on physical activity to adults in primary care. It aims to improve health and wellbeing by raising awareness of the importance of physical activity and encouraging people to increase or maintain their activity level.
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and managing physical health problems of adults aged 18 years and older in prisons or young offender institutes. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS156
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Medicines reconciliation
- Quality statement 2: Second-stage health assessment
- Quality statement 3: Blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections
- Quality statement 4: Lead care coordinator
- Quality statement 5: Medicines on transfer or discharge
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This guideline covers needle and syringe programmes for people (including those under 16) who inject drugs. The main aim is to reduce the transmission of viruses and other infections caused by sharing injecting equipment, such as HIV, hepatitis B and C. In turn, this will reduce the prevalence of blood-borne viruses and bacterial infections, so benefiting wider society.
Unintentional injuries on the road: interventions for under 15s (PH31)
This guideline covers road speed limits, 20 mph zones and engineering measures to reduce speed or make routes safer.
This guideline covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes. The aim is to maintain and improve their oral health and ensure timely access to dental treatment.
Community engagement: improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities (NG44)
This guideline covers community engagement approaches to reduce health inequalities, ensure health and wellbeing initiatives are effective and help local authorities and health bodies meet their statutory obligations.
Unintentional injuries: prevention strategies for under 15s (PH29)
This guideline covers strategies, regulation, enforcement, surveillance and workforce development in relation to preventing unintentional injuries in the home, on the road and during outdoor play and leisure.
This quality standard covers prevention, behavioural management, assessment, and treatment of overweight, obesity and central adiposity in children and young people aged over 2 years, and adults. This includes those with established comorbidities, and those with risk factors for other medical conditions. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS212
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Recording BMI and waist-to-height ratio in adults
- Quality statement 2: Recording BMI in children and young people aged over 2 years
- Quality statement 3: Access to services for people with a learning disability
- Quality statement 4: Maintaining details of local and national overweight and obesity management interventions and services
- Quality statement 5: Providing information about local and national weight management interventions and services
- Quality statement 6: Wraparound care alongside medicines for weight management
- Quality statement 7: Advice and support after stopping medicines for weight management or completing behavioural interventions
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.
This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes.
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.
This guideline covers the components of a good patient experience. It aims to make sure that all adults using NHS services have the best possible experience of care.
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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 .