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This quality standard covers assessing and treating fertility problems in people with explained and unexplained infertility, including access to IVF treatment. It also covers cryopreservation before cancer treatment that may affect fertility. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS73
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Lifestyle advice
- Quality statement 2: Referral for specialist consultation
- Quality statement 3: Counselling
- Quality statement 4: Semen analysis
- Quality statement 5: IVF for women under 40 years
- Quality statement 6: IVF for women aged 40 to 42 years
- Quality statement 7: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
This quality standard covers managing diabetes and its complications in women who are planning a pregnancy or are already pregnant. It includes care for women with pre-existing diabetes before and during pregnancy, and diagnosis and management of gestational diabetes. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS109
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Preconception planning
- Quality statement 2: Joint diabetes and antenatal team care
- Quality statement 3: Continuous glucose monitoring
- Quality statement 4: Postnatal testing and referral
- Quality statement 5: Annual HbA1c tests
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- About this quality standard
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.
Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and management (NG101)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing early and locally advanced breast cancer. It aims to help healthcare professionals offer the right treatments to people, taking into account the person's individual preferences.
Hepatitis B and C testing: people at risk of infection (PH43)
This guideline covers raising awareness of and testing for hepatitis B and C infection. It aims to ensure that people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection are tested.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing menopause in women, trans men and non-binary people registered female at birth, including those who have premature ovarian insufficiency (menopause before the age of 40, which can occur naturally or as a result of medical or surgical treatment). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS143
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- Quality statement 1: Diagnosing perimenopause and menopause
- Quality statement 2: Diagnosing premature ovarian insufficiency
- Quality statement 3: Managing premature ovarian insufficiency
- Quality statement 4: Reviewing treatments for menopause-associated symptoms
- Quality statement 5: Information before treatment likely to cause menopause
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- About this quality standard
This guideline covers exercise referral schemes for people aged 19 and older, in particular, those who are inactive or sedentary. The aim is to encourage people to be physically active.
This quality standard covers testing, diagnosing and managing hepatitis B in adults, young people and children (from birth). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS65
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Testing and vaccination for hepatitis B
- Quality statement 2: Referral for specialist care
- Quality statement 3: Referral to and assessment by specialist care for pregnant women who are identified as hepatitis B surface antigen-positive at antenatal screening
- Quality statement 4: Complete course of neonatal hepatitis B vaccination and blood testing at 12 months
- Quality statement 5: Personalised care plan
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring people with chronic hepatitis B infection who do not meet the criteria for antiviral treatment
- Quality statement 7: 6-monthly surveillance testing for hepatocellular carcinoma in adults with chronic hepatitis B infection who have significant liver fibrosis or cirrhosis
Urinary tract infection (lower): antimicrobial prescribing (NG109)
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for lower urinary tract infection (also called cystitis) in children, young people and adults who do not have a catheter. It aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
This quality standard covers assessing and diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in children and young people. It also covers support during pregnancy to prevent FASD. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This guideline covers encouraging people to increase the amount they walk or cycle for travel or recreation purposes.
Osteoporosis: assessing the risk of fragility fracture (CG146)
This guideline covers assessing the risk of fragility fracture in people aged 18 and over with osteoporosis. It aims to provide guidance on the selection and use of risk assessment tools in the care of adults at risk of fragility fractures in all NHS settings.
This guideline covers assessing and managing heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia). It aims to help healthcare professionals investigate the cause of heavy periods that are affecting a woman’s quality of life and to offer the right treatments, taking into account the woman’s priorities and preferences.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing epilepsy in children, young people and adults in primary and secondary care, and referral to tertiary services. It aims to improve diagnosis and treatment for different seizure types and epilepsy syndromes, and reduce the risks for people with epilepsy.
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- Overview
- 1 Diagnosis and assessment of epilepsy
- 2 Information and support
- 3 Referral to tertiary specialist services
- 4 Principles of treatment, safety, monitoring and withdrawal
- 5 Treating epileptic seizures in children, young people and adults
- 6 Treating childhood-onset epilepsies
- 7 Treating status epilepticus, repeated or cluster seizures, and prolonged seizures
Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis and management of physical complications (CG100)
This guideline covers care for adults and young people (aged 10 years and older) with physical health problems that are completely or partly caused by an alcohol-use disorder. It aims to improve the health of people with alcohol-use disorders by providing recommendations on managing acute alcohol withdrawal and treating alcohol-related conditions.