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Hepatitis B and C testing: people at risk of infection (PH43)
This guideline covers raising awareness of and testing for hepatitis B and C infection. It aims to ensure that people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection are tested.
Peginterferon alfa and ribavirin for the treatment of mild chronic hepatitis C (TA106)
Evidence-based recommendations on peginterferon alfa (Pegasys) and ribavirin for people with mild chronic hepatitis C.
Peginterferon alfa and ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (TA200)
Evidence-based recommendations on peginterferon alfa (Pegasys; ViraferonPeg) and ribavirin for treating chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Glecaprevir–pibrentasvir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA499)
Evidence-based recommendations on glecaprevir–pibrentasvir (Maviret) for treating chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Evidence-based recommendations on interferon alfa (Pegasys or ViraferonPeg) and ribavirin for people with chronic hepatitis C.
This quality standard covers assessment and treatment of drug use disorders in adults (aged 18 and over). It includes treating the misuse of opioids, cannabis, stimulants and other drugs in all settings, including inpatient and specialist residential and community-based treatment settings, and prison services. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS23
- Introduction and overview
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Needle and syringe programmes
- Quality statement 2: Assessment
- Quality statement 3: Families and carers
- Quality statement 4: Blood-borne viruses
- Quality statement 5: Information and advice
- Quality statement 6: Keyworking – psychosocial interventions
Ombitasvir–paritaprevir–ritonavir with or without dasabuvir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA365)
Evidence-based recommendations on ombitasvir–paritaprevir–ritonavir (also known as Viekirax) with or without dasabuvir (also known as Exviera) for adults with some types (called genotypes) of chronic hepatitis C.
This guideline covers assessing and managing chronic hepatitis B in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve care for people with hepatitis B by specifying which tests and treatments to use for people of different ages and with different disease severities.
Sofosbuvir–velpatasvir–voxilaprevir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA507)
Evidence-based recommendations on sofosbuvir–velpatasvir–voxilaprevir (Vosevi) for treating chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Elbasvir–grazoprevir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA413)
Evidence-based recommendations on elbasvir–grazoprevir (Zepatier) for treating genotype 1 or 4 chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Sofosbuvir–velpatasvir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA430)
Evidence-based recommendations on sofosbuvir–velpatasvir (Epclusa) for treating chronic hepatitis C in adults.
Ledipasvir–sofosbuvir for treating chronic hepatitis C (TA363)
Evidence-based recommendations on ledipasvir–sofosbuvir (Harvoni) for treating some types (genotypes) of chronic hepatitis C
This quality standard covers identifying, assessing and managing chronic liver disease in children, young people and adults, and cirrhosis in young people and adults. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS152
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Advice on physical activity, diet and alcohol
- Quality statement 2 (developmental): Testing for advanced liver fibrosis
- Quality statement 3 (developmental): Non-invasive testing for cirrhosis
- Quality statement 4: Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma
- Quality statement 5: Prophylactic intravenous antibiotics for upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This guideline covers assessing and managing suspected or confirmed cirrhosis in people who are 16 years or older. It aims to improve how cirrhosis is identified and diagnosed, and gives advice on the monitoring, prevention and early management of complications.
Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (CG89)
This guideline covers the signs of possible child maltreatment in children and young people aged under 18 years. It aims to raise awareness and help health professionals who are not child protection specialists to identify the features of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and fabricated or induced illness.
Evidence-based recommendations on Virtual Touch Quantification to diagnose and monitor liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B and C.
uptake of hepatitis C treatment be improved? What factors influence whether or not specific groups at increased risk will begin and...
Tenofovir disoproxil for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (TA173)
Evidence-based recommendations on tenofovir disoproxil for treating chronic hepatitis B.
for hepatitis B and C be improved? What modifiable factors influence whether or not specific groups at increased risk of...
Introducing a blood borne virus testing facility within a substance misuse harm reduction service
A project to introduce hepatitis and HIV blood borne virus testing in a needle exchange and drug treatment
The OraQuick HCV point‑of‑care test for rapid detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies (MIB24)
NICE has developed a medtech innovation briefing (MIB) on the OraQuick HCV point-of-care test for rapid detection of hepatitis C virus antibodies
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and managing physical health problems of adults aged 18 years and older in prisons or young offender institutes. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS156
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Medicines reconciliation
- Quality statement 2: Second-stage health assessment
- Quality statement 3: Blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections
- Quality statement 4: Lead care coordinator
- Quality statement 5: Medicines on transfer or discharge
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Evidence-based recommendations on sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) for treating some types of chronic hepatitis C (HCV)
Evidence-based recommendations on peginterferon alfa (Pegasys; ViraferonPeg) and ribavirin (Copegus) for treating chronic hepatitis C in children and young people.
Discontinued [GID-TAG456]
This guideline covers using psychosocial interventions to treat adults and young people over 16 who have a problem with or are dependent on opioids, stimulants or cannabis. It aims to reduce illicit drug use and improve people’s physical and mental health, relationships and employment.
This quality standard covers testing, diagnosing and managing hepatitis B in adults, young people and children (from birth). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS65
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Testing and vaccination for hepatitis B
- Quality statement 2: Referral for specialist care
- Quality statement 3: Referral to and assessment by specialist care for pregnant women who are identified as hepatitis B surface antigen-positive at antenatal screening
- Quality statement 4: Complete course of neonatal hepatitis B vaccination and blood testing at 12 months
- Quality statement 5: Personalised care plan
- Quality statement 6: Monitoring people with chronic hepatitis B infection who do not meet the criteria for antiviral treatment
- Quality statement 7: 6-monthly surveillance testing for hepatocellular carcinoma in adults with chronic hepatitis B infection who have significant liver fibrosis or cirrhosis
This guideline covers diagnosing and treating fertility problems. It aims to reduce variation in practice and improve the way fertility problems are investigated and managed.
This guideline covers how donor milk banks should recruit, screen and support women who donate breast milk. It also covers how milk banks should handle and process the breast milk they receive from donors. It aims to improve the safety of donor milk and operation of donor milk services.
awareness-raising about, and promoting testing and treatment for, hepatitis B and C infection? Specifically, how cost...
ensure continuity of care for prisoners who are diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B or C in prison? Any explanatory notes(if...
Question How many children in the UK are infected with chronic hepatitis B and C and which subgroups of the population do...
Question How many people in the UK are infected with chronic hepatitis B and C and which subgroups of the population do...
Question What impact does increased knowledge and awareness of hepatitis B and C among the general public have on the...
for hepatitis B and C? Any explanatory notes(if applicable) None. Source guidance details Comes from guidance...
The appraisal has been withdrawn because Janssen withdrew their marketing authorisation on 1 May 2018. The availability of direct-acting antiviral combination treatments for hepatitis C has reduced the use of simeprevir, so the company has decided to discontinue it.
clinical data from people having treatment with the new generation of hepatitis C virus treatments. NICE agreed that such efforts should...
communicable diseases could be used to encourage people at increased risk of hepatitis B and C infection to take up the...
Evidence-based recommendations on the CoaguChek XS system for self-monitoring coagulation status in adults and children. The recommendations originally included the InRatio2 PT/INR, but this was withdrawn from the market in October 2016 and is not currently available
This guideline covers assessing, diagnosing and managing physical health problems of people in prison. It aims to improve health and wellbeing in the prison population by promoting more coordinated care and more effective approaches to prescribing, dispensing and supervising medicines.
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve ways of finding people who have TB in the community and recommends that everyone under 65 with latent TB should be treated. It describes how TB services should be organised, including the role of the TB control board.
This guideline covers needle and syringe programmes for people (including those under 16) who inject drugs. The main aim is to reduce the transmission of viruses and other infections caused by sharing injecting equipment, such as HIV, hepatitis B and C. In turn, this will reduce the prevalence of blood-borne viruses and bacterial infections, so benefiting wider society.
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.
a NICE Scholarship project we aimed to improve awareness and uptake of Hepatitis B Screening and Vaccination in at-risk groups attending...
Obeticholic acid for treating primary biliary cholangitis (TA443)
Evidence-based recommendations on obeticholic acid (Ocaliva) for treating primary biliary cholangitis in adults.
FibroScan for assessing liver fibrosis and cirrhosis outside secondary and specialist care (DG48)
Evidence-based recommendations on FibroScan for assessing liver fibrosis and cirrhosis outside secondary and specialist care
This guidance has been withdrawn because Bristol-Myers Squibb has discontinued daclatasvir (Daklinza).
This quality standard covers interventions to improve the uptake of HIV testing among people who may have undiagnosed HIV. It focuses on increasing testing to reduce undiagnosed infection in people at increased risk of exposure. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS157
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Hospitals in areas of high and extremely high HIV prevalence
- Quality statement 2: General practice in areas of high and extremely high HIV prevalence
- Quality statement 3: HIV indicator conditions
- Quality statement 4: Regular HIV testing
- Quality statement 5: People who may have been exposed to HIV
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing drug allergy in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS97
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Documentation using the structured assessment guide
- Quality statement 2: Advice about carrying personal structured drug information
- Quality statement 3: Referral to specialist drug allergy services
- Quality statement 4: Recording drug allergy status in electronic medical records
- Quality statement 5: Updating information on drug allergy status
- Quality statement 6 (developmental): Prescription information on drug avoidance
- About this quality standard
Collaborating with community pharmacists to deliver sexual health services
Hepatitis B and C testing: people at risk of infection