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This quality standard covers preventing and controlling infection in adults, young people and children receiving healthcare in primary, community and secondary care settings. It includes preventing healthcare-associated infections that develop because of treatment or from being in a healthcare setting. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS61
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Antimicrobial stewardship
- Quality statement 2: Organisational responsibility
- Quality statement 3: Hand decontamination
- Quality statement 4: Urinary catheters
- Quality statement 5: Vascular access devices
- Quality statement 6: Educating people about infection prevention and control
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Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis and management (CG142)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder 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.
Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification (NG238)
This guideline covers identifying and assessing risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults without established CVD. It covers lifestyle changes and lipid-lowering treatment (including statins) for primary and secondary prevention of CVD, and includes guidance for people who also have diabetes or chronic kidney disease.
Charging procedure for NICE technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies evaluations
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Evidence summaries: unlicensed and off-label medicines – Interim process statement (PMG2)
This interim process statement sets out to guide the development of 'Evidence summaries: unlicensed and off-label medicines' (ESUOMs). It provides an overview of the key process principles and describes all stages of development for ESUOMs
This guideline covers safe midwifery staffing in all maternity settings, including at home, in the community, in day assessment units, in obstetric units, and in units led by midwives (both alongside hospitals and free-standing). It aims to improve maternity care by giving advice on monitoring staffing levels and actions to take if there are not enough midwives to meet the needs of women and babies in the service.
This guideline covers how to make shared decision making part of everyday care in all healthcare settings. It promotes ways for healthcare professionals and people using services to work together to make decisions about treatment and care. It includes recommendations on training, communicating risks, benefits and consequences, using decision aids, and how to embed shared decision making in organisational culture and practices.
This guideline covers how organisations, practitioners and carers should work together to deliver high-quality care, stable placements and nurturing relationships for looked-after children and young people. It aims to help these children and young people reach their full potential and have the same opportunities as their peers.
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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A new model for evaluating and purchasing antimicrobials in the UK
Overview of NICE and NHS England’s pioneering subscription-style purchasing model for antimicrobials: its pilot with ceftazidime-avibactam and cefiderocol in 2022, expansion in 2024, supporting health technology assessments, downloadable guidance and procurement tools.
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for acute sore throat. It aims to limit antibiotic use and reduce antimicrobial resistance. Acute sore throat is often caused by a virus, lasts for about a week, and most people get better without antibiotics. Withholding antibiotics rarely leads to complications.