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Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people (QS59)
This quality standard covers recognising and managing antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS59
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Early intervention
- Quality statement 2: Comprehensive assessment
- Quality statement 3: Improving access to services
- Quality statement 4: Parent or carer training
- Quality statement 5: Multimodal interventions
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring adverse effects of pharmacological interventions
- Update information
This guideline covers the planning, delivery and review of social work interventions for adults who have complex needs. It promotes ways for social work professionals, other care staff and people with complex needs to work together to make decisions about care and support.
This guideline covers the diagnosis and management of gout. It includes recommendations on diagnosing gout, managing flares, long-term management of gout and referral to specialist services.
Nalmefene for reducing alcohol consumption in people with alcohol dependence (TA325)
Evidence-based recommendations on nalmefene (Selincro) for reducing alcohol consumption in adults with alcohol dependence.
Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment (CG159)
This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating social anxiety disorder (also known as ‘social phobia’) in children and young people (from school age to 17 years) and adults (aged 18 years and older). It aims to improve symptoms, educational, occupational and social functioning, and quality of life in people with social anxiety disorder.
Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women: management (NG123)
This guideline covers assessing and managing urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women aged 18 and over. It also covers complications associated with mesh surgery for these conditions.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing atopic eczema in children under 12. It aims to improve care for children with atopic eczema by making detailed recommendations on treatment and specialist referral. The guideline also explains how healthcare professionals should assess the effect eczema has on quality of life, in addition to its physical severity.
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Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people (PH47)
This guideline covers lifestyle weight management services for children and young people aged under 18 who are overweight or obese. It advises how to deliver effective weight management programmes that support children and young people to change their lifestyle and manage their weight.
Dapagliflozin for treating chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (TA679)
Evidence-based recommendations on dapagliflozin (Forxiga) for symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in adults.
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.
This quality standard covers the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults and young people (aged 16 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS38
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Risk assessment
- Quality statement 2: Immediate endoscopy for people who are haemodynamically unstable
- Quality statement 3: Endoscopy within 24 hours for people who are haemodynamically stable
- Quality statement 4: Endoscopic treatment for non-variceal bleeding
- Quality statement 5: Treatment of non-variceal bleeding after first or failed endoscopic treatment
- Quality statement 6: Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for variceal bleeding
- Quality statement 7: Band ligation for oesophageal variceal bleeding
This quality standard covers identifying, assessing and treating attachment difficulties in children and young people (under 18). It focuses on children and young people at high risk of going into care, looked after by local authorities in foster homes, in special guardianship, adopted from care, and those in residential settings and other accommodation. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers assessing and managing psoriasis in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS40
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Assessing disease severity
- Quality statement 2: Assessing impact of disease
- Quality statement 3: Referring to specialist services
- Quality statement 4: Assessing cardiovascular risk
- Quality statement 5: Assessing for psoriatic arthritis
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring systemic therapy
- Update information
Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness (NG214)
This guideline covers providing integrated health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness. It aims to improve access to and engagement with health and social care, and ensure care is coordinated across different services.
This guideline covers methods for monitoring the wellbeing of the baby during labour. It includes risk assessment to determine the appropriate level of fetal monitoring, using clinical assessment in addition to fetal monitoring, and interpreting and acting on monitoring findings.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing hypertension (high blood pressure), including pre-eclampsia, during pregnancy, labour and birth. It also includes advice for women with hypertension who wish to conceive and women who have had a pregnancy complicated by hypertension. It aims to improve care during pregnancy, labour and birth for women and their babies.
Depression in children and young people: identification and management (NG134)
This guideline covers identifying and managing depression in children and young people aged 5 to 18 years. Based on the stepped-care model, it aims to improve recognition and assessment and promote effective treatments for mild and moderate to severe depression.
We have built into EMIS Web (a clinical system for delivering integrated care), a number of optimisations which
Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management (CG77)
This guideline covers principles for working with people with antisocial personality disorder, including dealing with crises (crisis resolution). It aims to help people with antisocial personality disorder manage feelings of anger, distress, anxiety and depression, and to reduce offending and antisocial behaviour.
This quality standard covers assessing and managing motor neurone disease, including care, support and planning after diagnosis. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS126
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Information and support at diagnosis
- Quality statement 2: Respiratory assessment and non-invasive ventilation
- Quality statement 3: Provision of equipment and adaptions based on multidisciplinary team assessment
- Quality statement 4: Continuity of care
- Quality statement 5: Planning for end of life care
- About this quality standard
Evidence based recommendations on patiromer (Veltassa) for treating hyperkalaemia in adults.
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.
This guideline covers assessment, treatment, monitoring and inpatient care for children, young people and adults with eating disorders. It aims to improve the care people receive by detailing the most effective treatments for anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa.
Early years: promoting health and wellbeing in under 5s (QS128)
This quality standard covers services to support the health, and social and emotional wellbeing of children under 5, including vulnerable children who may need extra support. It includes health visitor services, childcare and early years education, and early intervention services in children’s social care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This guideline covers assessment and early management of head injury in babies, children, young people and adults. It aims to ensure that people have the right care for the severity of their head injury, including direct referral to specialist care if needed.
Suspected sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management (NG51)
This guideline covers the recognition, diagnosis and early management of suspected sepsis. It includes recommendations on recognition and early assessment, initial treatment, escalating care, finding and controlling the source of infection, early monitoring, information and support, and training and education.
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Sections for NG51
- Overview
- Could this be sepsis?
- Face to face assessment
- Under 16s: evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Pregnant or recently pregnant people: evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Over 16s (not pregnant or recently pregnant): evaluating risk and managing suspected sepsis
- Antibiotic therapy, intravenous fluid and oxygen
- Finding and controlling the source of infection
This guideline covers when to offer and discuss caesarean birth, procedural aspects of the operation, and care after caesarean birth. It aims to improve the consistency and quality of care for women and pregnant people who are thinking about having a caesarean birth or have had a caesarean birth in the past and are now pregnant again.
PLGF-based testing to help diagnose suspected preterm pre-eclampsia (DG49)
Evidence-based recommendations on placental growth factor (PLGF)-based testing to help diagnose suspected preterm pre-eclampsia. The tests are: DELFIA Xpress PLGF 1 2 3, DELFIA Xpress sFlt 1/PLGF 1 2 3 ratio, Elecsys immunoassay sFlt 1/PLGF ratio, Triage PLGF Test
Help for care home managers and staff to prevent infection
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.
Neutropenic sepsis: prevention and management in people with cancer (CG151)
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing neutropenic sepsis in children, young people and adults receiving treatment for cancer in the community and in secondary and tertiary care. It aims to reduce the risk of infection in people with neutropenia (low number of white blood cells) who are receiving anticancer treatment and improve management of neutropenic sepsis.
Chronic wounds: advanced wound dressings and antimicrobial dressings (ESMPB2)
Summary of the evidence on advanced wound dressings and antimicrobial dressings for managing chronic wounds to inform local NHS planning and decision-making
Evidence-based recommendations on ivabradine (Procoralan) for treating chronic heart failure in adults.
This guideline covers identifying, assessing and managing obesity in children (aged 2 years and over), young people and adults.
Autism spectrum disorder in adults: diagnosis and management (CG142)
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing suspected or confirmed autism spectrum disorder (autism, Asperger’s syndrome and atypical autism) 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.
Biomarker tests to help diagnose preterm labour in women with intact membranes (DG33)
Evidence-based recommendations on biomarker tests to help diagnose preterm labour in women with intact membranes. The tests are Actim Partus, PartoSure and the
Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions (NG183)
This guideline covers interventions that use a digital or mobile platform to help people eat more healthily, become more active, stop smoking, reduce their alcohol intake or practise safer sex. The interventions include those delivered by text message, apps, wearable devices or the internet. The guideline only includes those that are delivered by the technology itself and not by healthcare professionals using technology to deliver interventions.
This guideline covers care and support for people with advanced (stage 4) breast cancer. It aims to help them and their healthcare professionals make shared decisions about tests and treatments to improve outcomes and quality of life.
Training resources for those working in social care
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for insect and spider bites and stings in adults, young people and children aged 72 hours and over, including those that occurred while travelling outside the UK. It aims to limit antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
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This guideline covers recognising and responding to abuse and neglect in children and young people aged under 18. It covers physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and neglect. The guideline aims to help anyone whose work brings them into contact with children and young people to spot signs of abuse and neglect and to know how to respond. It also supports practitioners who carry out assessments and provide early help and interventions to children, young people, parents and carers.
This guideline covers identifying, treating and managing depression in people aged 18 and over. It recommends treatments for first episodes of depression and further-line treatments, and provides advice on preventing relapse, and managing chronic depression, psychotic depression and depression with a coexisting diagnosis of personality disorder.
This quality standard covers the health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people (from birth to 18 years) and care leavers (including young people planning to leave care or under leaving care provisions). It is for all settings and services that work with and care for looked-after children and young people, wherever they are living (for example, with family or friends, with foster families or in residential care). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS31
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Warm, nurturing care
- Quality statement 2: Collaborative working between services and professionals
- Quality statement 3: Stability and quality of placements
- Quality statement 4: Support to explore and make sense of identity and relationships
- Quality statement 5: Support from specialist and dedicated services
- Quality statement 6: Continuity of services for placements outside the local authority or health boundary
- Quality statement 7: Support to fulfil potential
Evidence-based recommendations on bulevirtide (Hepcludex) for chronic hepatitis D in adults.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing stable angina in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS21
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Diagnostic investigation
- Quality statement 2: First-line treatment
- Quality statement 3: Medical treatment before revascularisation
- Quality statement 4: Multidisciplinary team
- Quality statement 5: Symptoms not responding to treatment
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Renal replacement therapy and conservative management (NG107)
This guideline covers renal replacement therapy (dialysis and transplantation) and conservative management for people with chronic kidney disease stages 4 and 5. It aims to improve quality of life by making recommendations on planning, starting and switching treatments, and coordinating care.
Urinary tract infection (catheter-associated): antimicrobial prescribing (NG113)
This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for catheter-associated urinary tract infection in children, young people and adults. It aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
This guideline covers interventions to maintain and improve the mental wellbeing and independence of people aged 65 or older and how to identify those most at risk of a decline.
Evidence-based recommendations on dapagliflozin (Forxiga) for treating chronic heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction in adults.