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Prasugrel with percutaneous coronary intervention for treating acute coronary syndromes (TA317)
Evidence-based recommendations on prasugrel (Efient) with percutaneous coronary intervention for treating acute coronary syndromes in adults.
Pemetrexed for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma (TA135)
Evidence-based recommendations on pemetrexed for treating malignant pleural mesothelioma in adults.
This guideline covers optimising care for adults with multimorbidity (multiple long-term conditions) by reducing treatment burden (polypharmacy and multiple appointments) and unplanned care. It aims to improve quality of life by promoting shared decisions based on what is important to each person in terms of treatments, health priorities, lifestyle and goals. The guideline sets out which people are most likely to benefit from an approach to care that takes account of multimorbidity, how they can be identified and what the care involves.
Introducing therapy champions to improve the 24 hour approach to patient rehabilitation
goals. It supports delivery of the intermediate care guidance (NG74) and falls guidance (CG161) and quality standard (QS86) by up...
Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes (NG6)
This guideline covers reducing the health risks (including preventable deaths) associated with living in a cold home. It aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people vulnerable to the cold. Improving the temperature in homes, by improving energy efficiency, may also help reduce unnecessary fuel consumption.
Community pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing (NG102)
This guideline covers how community pharmacies can help maintain and improve people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing, including people with a long-term condition. It aims to encourage more people to use community pharmacies by integrating them within existing health and care pathways and ensuring they offer standard services and a consistent approach. It requires a collaborative approach from individual pharmacies and their representatives, local authorities and other commissioners.
tackle winter pressures, specifically around cold homes, social isolation, falls prevention and signposting to flu inoculations. These...
This guideline covers complex rehabilitation needs after traumatic injury, including assessment and goal setting, rehabilitation plans and programmes, physical, psychological and cognitive rehabilitation, rehabilitation for specific injuries, coordination of rehabilitation in hospital, at discharge and in the community, and commissioning and organising rehabilitation services.
discharges. Expedite discharges from residential care in Mansfield. Reducing falls by assessing and removing hazards in the home to...
should be considered when inpatient units are built, to reduce the risk of falls and injuries in older inpatients? Any explanatory...
medication. For the avoidance of any doubt, if a patient's clinical condition falls within the recommendation of a NICE technology...
are given pedometers to encourage them to walk. Guidance for preventing falls in older people, (NICE CG161, 2013), recommends strength...
Guide to the technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies appeal process (pre June 2023)
A guide to intermediate care services that provide support for a short time to help you recover and increase your independence
This quality standard covers the management of Parkinson’s disease in adults. It does not include treatment of parkinsonism not caused by Parkinson’s disease. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS164
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- Quality statement 1: Point of contact with specialist services
- Quality statement 2: Information about impulse control disorders
- Quality statement 3: Referral to physiotherapy, occupational therapy or speech and language therapy
- Quality statement 4: Levodopa in hospital or a care home
- Quality statement 5: Access to clozapine for treating hallucinations and delusions
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