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This guideline covers good practice for managing medicines in care homes. It aims to promote the safe and effective use of medicines in care homes by advising on processes for prescribing, handling and administering medicines. It also recommends how care and services relating to medicines should be provided to people living in care homes.
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.
This quality standard covers managing medicines safely and effectively in care homes. It includes processes for prescribing, handling and administering medicines for adults, young people, and children living in care homes. It also includes providing care and support relating to medicines. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers oral health, including dental health and daily mouth care, for adults in care homes (with and without nursing provision). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This guideline covers keeping adults in care homes safe from abuse and neglect. It includes potential indicators of abuse and neglect by individuals or organisations, and covers the safeguarding process from when a concern is first identified through to section 42 safeguarding enquiries. There are recommendations on policy, training, and care home culture, to improve care home staff awareness of safeguarding and ensure people can report concerns when needed.
This quality standard covers the mental wellbeing of older people (aged 65 and over) receiving care in care homes (including residential and nursing accommodation, day care and respite care). It focuses on support for people to improve their mental wellbeing so that they can stay as well and independent as possible. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Participation in meaningful activity
- Quality statement 2: Personal identity
- Quality statement 3: Recognition of mental health conditions
- Quality statement 4: Recognition of sensory impairment
- Quality statement 5: Recognition of physical problems
- Quality statement 6: Access to healthcare services
- Update information
NICE quick guide - moving between hospital and home, including care homes
A quick and easy-to-read guide for care home managers about achieving good oral health in care homes.
All NICE products on care homes. Includes any guidance and quality standards.
Wigan Borough CCG has employed a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to work with GP practices, residential and nursing homes to carry out structured medication reviews for care homes
A quick guide to preventing pressure ulcers for managers of care homes
This quality standard covers preventing, assessing and managing pressure ulcers (bed sores) in adults, young people and children. It includes risk assessment and support to prevent pressure ulcers. It applies to all settings, including hospitals, care homes (with and without nursing care) and people’s own homes.
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Sections for QS89
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Pressure ulcer risk assessment in hospitals and care homes with nursing
- Quality statement 2: Pressure ulcer risk assessment by community nursing services
- Quality statement 3: Pressure ulcer risk reassessment
- Quality statement 4: Skin assessment
- Quality statement 5: Advice on repositioning
- Quality statement 6: Help with repositioning
This guideline covers the transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care homes for adults with social care needs. It aims to improve people's experience of admission to, and discharge from, hospital by better coordination of health and social care services.
Reducing incidence of Urinary Tract Infections by promoting hydration in care homes
incidence of Urinary Tract Infections by promoting hydration in local care homes. As background, NHS England reported in 2014 UTIs were...
Implementing NICE's medicines management in care homes guidance in Plymouth
implement the recommendations from NICE guidance for managing medicines in care homes (SC1). This example sets out how the team engaged...
A quick guide for registered managers of care homes and home care services supporting advance care planning
This guideline covers systems and processes for using and managing controlled drugs safely in all NHS settings except care homes. It aims to improve working practices to comply with legislation and have robust governance arrangements. It also aims to reduce the safety risks associated with controlled drugs.
established to support pharmacy technicians working in clinical roles in care homes and domiciliary settings. NICE guidance NG 5...
provider have translated 5 NICE Quality Standards into audit tools whereby care homes can evidence their performance against the...
and also evaluated consultant pharmacist led trust outreach clinics for care homes. In 2015, Department of Health in Northern Ireland...
Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NG22)
This guideline covers planning and delivering social care and support for older people who have multiple long-term conditions. It promotes an integrated and person-centred approach to delivering effective health and social care services.
Awaiting development [GID-QS10147] Expected publication date: TBC
To comply with recommendations in NICE guidance Managing Medicines in care homes (SC1): Recommendation 1.8 Reviewing Medicines: 1.8.3...
approach in care homes:- What is the effectiveness and acceptability of different strategies to enable positive risk-taking in...
England for adults in care homes:- What effect does improving and maintaining access to dental services for adults in care...
A quick guide to creating a safeguarding culture
Recommendation ID NG22/3 Question Supporting people in care homes to stay active:- What is the most effective and cost-effective way of
carrying out daily mouth care and oral health assessments for adults in care homes:- What are the facilitators and barriers to...
A quick guide to promoting positive mental wellbeing for older people
Help for care home managers and staff to prevent infection
This quality standard covers increasing the uptake of flu vaccination among people who are eligible. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers referral and assessment for intermediate care and how to deliver the service. It covers bed-based intermediate care, crisis response, home-based intermediate care and reablement. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover rehabilitation for specific conditions.
This quality standard covers the prevention, diagnosis and management of delirium in adults (aged 18 and over) in hospital or long-term care settings (such as residential care or nursing homes). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS63
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Assessing recent changes that may indicate delirium
- Quality statement 2: Interventions to prevent delirium
- Quality statement 3: Use of antipsychotic medication for people who are distressed
- Quality statement 4: Information and support
- Quality statement 5: Communication of diagnosis to GPs
- Update information
- About this quality standard
residents:- How effective and cost effective are oral health interventions in care homes including suitableperson-centred outcome...
quality standards on managing medicines for adults receiving social care in care homes and in the community . These examples show how...
A quick guide to good practice in safeguarding training
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
- Quality statements
- 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
- About this quality standard
A quick, easy way to access key information from NICE on social care topics.
care for residents:- Does the delivery of a daily mouth care regimen in care homes maintain or improve adult residents' oral...
services:- Do preventive oral health interventions in residential and nursing care homes reduce demands on other health and social care...
commissioning quality schedule based on our quality standards. Standards for care homes have been agreed and rolled out across all 33...
This guideline covers referral and assessment for intermediate care and how to deliver the service. Intermediate care is a multidisciplinary service that helps people to be as independent as possible. It provides support and rehabilitation to people at risk of hospital admission or who have been in hospital. It aims to ensure people transfer from hospital to the community in a timely way and to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospitals and residential care.
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in the community. It includes identifying people at risk of malnutrition and providing nutrition support, including dietary changes and artificial nutrition support given through feeding tubes (enteral nutrition) or directly into a vein (parenteral nutrition). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS24
- Introduction and overview
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Screening for the risk of malnutrition
- Quality statement 2: Treatment
- Quality statement 3: Documentation and communication of results and nutrition support goals
- Quality statement 4: Self-management of artificial nutrition support
- Quality statement 5: Review
- Using the quality standard
Training resources for those working in social care
The section of the NICEimpact report on social care that looks at people's experience of care and support
A quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support
This integrated pathway (Red Bag Pathway) is designed to support care homes, ambulance services and the local hospital meet the...
Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes (QS50)
those living in care homes. Caring for Smiles teams are delivering training sessions across Scotland and have produced a Guide for...
setting is a key feature of the NICE guidance NG48 Oral Health for Adults in Care Homes and the practice set out in this example aligns...