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This guideline covers identifying and caring for adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in their own home or a care home. It offers advice on how oral, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition support should be started, administered and stopped. It aims to support healthcare professionals identify malnourished people and help them to choose the most appropriate form of support.
This guideline covers diagnosing and managing Parkinson's disease in people aged 18 and over. It aims to improve care from the time of diagnosis, including monitoring and managing symptoms, providing information and support, and palliative care.
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.
Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system (NG66)
This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal justice system. It aims to improve mental health and wellbeing in this population by establishing principles for assessment and management, and promoting more coordinated care planning and service organisation across the criminal justice system.
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This quality standard covers the clinical care of adults (aged 18 and over) who are dying, during the last 2 to 3 days of life. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers admissions into, and discharge from, inpatient hospital settings for adults (aged 18 years and over) with social care needs. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS136
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Information sharing on admission
- Quality statement 2: Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- Quality statement 3: Coordinated discharge
- Quality statement 4: Discharge plans
- Quality statement 5: Involving carers in discharge planning
- Update information
- About this quality standard
common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders, or dementia in Down's syndrome. As a result, the identification...
ID NG53/2 Question People with complex needs other than dementia:- What is the effect of specific interventions to support people with...
Care and support for people with dementia:- What is the effect of specific interventions to support people with dementia...
Social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions (QS132)
This quality standard covers the planning and delivery of social care and support for older people (aged 65 and over) with multiple long-term conditions. It includes people living in their own homes, in specialist settings or in care homes, both those who receive support with funding for their social care and those who do not. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS132
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- Quality statement 1: Including physical and mental health needs in a care and support needs assessment
- Quality statement 2: Discussing services that could help at a care and support needs assessment
- Quality statement 3: Named care coordinator
- Quality statement 4: Care planning
- Quality statement 5: Review of health and social care plan
- About this quality standard
This guideline covers preventing, assessing and managing mental health problems in people with learning disabilities in all settings (including health, social care, education, and forensic and criminal justice). It aims to improve assessment and support for mental health conditions, and help people with learning disabilities and their families and carers to be involved in their care.
A project to improve care for older people in Wakefield has led to significant reductions in hospital admissions, attendances in A&E and ambulance call outs.
Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings (NG53)
This guideline covers the period before, during and after a person is admitted to, and discharged from, a mental health hospital. It aims to help people who use mental health services, and their families and carers, to have a better experience of transition by improving the way it’s planned and carried out.
differential effects on sub-populations in care homes. This includes: people with dementia, people in poor physical health, those with a...
adults with poor physical health, or a short life expectancy, or adults with dementia. It is important to understand the impact of oral...
The Oral Health Needs of Older People Living in Islington Nursing Homes.
considering that this population is also burdened by co-morbidities and dementia in particular, this poses challenges for cooperation to...
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
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- 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
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NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on the Quantitative Timed Up and Go (QTUG)
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.
The social care guidance manual
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 The scope
- 3 The Guidance Development Group
- 4 Developing review questions and planning the systematic review
- 5 Identifying the evidence: literature searching and evidence submission
- 6 Reviewing the evidence
- 7 Incorporating economic evaluation
- 8 Linking social care guidance to other NICE guidance
Diabetes Week, Stoptober, Mouth Cancer Awareness Action Month, Dry January and Dementia Awareness. • Establish health improvement work...
practice award to continuously develop and generate other projects such as dementia awareness training and to increase dental access for...
tools: for people with pre-existing cognitive impairment, for example dementia, learning disability or severe depression for people who...
studies demonstrate that up to 15% of people with MND have frontotemporal dementia. A further third of people with MND have changes in...
Preventing excess winter deaths and illness associated with cold homes (QS117)
This quality standard covers reducing the health risks (including preventable deaths) associated with cold homes. It includes identifying people at risk who are particularly vulnerable to the cold, such as young children, older people, and people with cardiovascular disease or mental health problems. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS117
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Year-round planning to identify vulnerable local populations
- Quality statement 2: Identifying people vulnerable to health problems associated with a cold home
- Quality statement 3: Single-point-of-contact health and housing referral service
- Quality statement 4: Asking people about keeping warm at home
- Quality statement 5: Identifying people vulnerable to health problems associated with cold homes on admission
- Quality statement 6: Discharge plan
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Membership of social groups after retirement 'boosts health and wellbeing'
New research published by BMJ Open suggests that membership of social groups such as book clubs or church groups after retirement is linked with improved health and wellbeing.
found was 1 UK randomised controlled trial for frail older people with dementia or delirium. It showed no significant differences in...
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) with suspected or confirmed pneumonia. It includes diagnosing and managing community-acquired pneumonia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS110
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Mortality risk assessment in primary care using CRB65 score
- Quality statement 2: Antibiotic therapy for diagnosed low-severity community-acquired pneumonia
- Quality statement 3: Chest X-ray and diagnosis within 4 hours of hospital presentation
- Quality statement 4: Mortality risk assessment in hospital using CURB65 score
- Quality statement 5: Antibiotic therapy within 4 hours in hospital
- Update information
- About this quality standard
NICE has welcomed proposed new guidelines on alcohol which aim to limit the health risks that result from drinking.
were moved from one setting to another e.g. it may have meant that their dementia review wasn't reviewed as planned by the secondary...
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.
This guideline covers the clinical care of adults (18 years and over) who are dying during the last 2 to 3 days of life. It aims to improve end of life care for people in their last days of life by communicating respectfully and involving them, and the people important to them, in decisions and by maintaining their comfort and dignity. The guideline covers how to manage common symptoms without causing unacceptable side effects and maintain hydration in the last days of life.
Effects of HRT on dementia risk:- What are the effects of early HRT use on the risk of dementia?
Question Effects of HRT on dementia risk:- What are the effects of early HRT use on the risk of dementia? Any explanatory...
an increased risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and possibly dementia. There is uncertainty about the diagnosis, time course...
mid-life maintain or adopt healthy behaviours and build up resilience to dementia, disability and frailty? What are the best methods for...
prevalence of risk and protective factors in mid-life for the development of dementia, disability and frailty, and what are the...
behavioural risk? What is the programme's effect on the development of dementia, disability and frailty? How feasible is extending the...
positive and negative health outcomes, in particular the development of dementia, disability and frailty? What are the most effective...
leading to healthier ageing and preventing or delaying the development of dementia, disability and frailty in later life? How can these...
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.
Mental Health Medicines improved care, and patient outcomes, for people with dementia prescribed mental health medicines...
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.
This guideline covers mid-life approaches to delay or prevent the onset of dementia, disability and frailty in later life. The guideline aims to increase the amount of time that people can be independent, healthy and active in later life.
Question Specialist dementia support:- What is the most effective and cost effective way to support people with dementia...
acceptability and accessibility (particularly for people with complex needs such as dementia). Cost information from a societal...
NICE has published a guideline to help deliver personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes. This document outlines the key recommendations for providers of home care services.
This guideline covers the planning and delivery of person-centred care for older people living in their own homes (known as home care or domiciliary care). It aims to promote older people's independence and to ensure safe and consistently high quality home care services.
Summary of the evidence on fluoxetine for treating hypersexuality to inform local NHS planning and decision-making
Consultation with older people, other agencies and charities to guide a dementia action plan, and a roundtable event with care home...
Any explanatory notes(if applicable) Why this is important:- Dementia, delirium, poor mobility and balance, urgent or frequent toilet...