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NICE's approach to patient and public involvement is based on 2 key principles: that lay people, and organisations...
This guideline covers good practice for developing, authorising, using and updating patient group directions. It also offers advice on deciding whether a patient group direction is needed.
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use services, carers, members of the public and organisations who represent their interests across NICE. Our public...
This guideline covers the components of a good patient experience. It aims to make sure that all adults using NHS services have the best possible experience of care.
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Agenda and papers of the NICE public board meeting on 15 September 2021
advice. We're committed to involving people who use services, carers and the public in the development of our guidance and other...
Agenda and papers of the NICE public board meeting on 21 September 2023
Agenda and papers of the NICE public board meeting on 18 November 2020
The NICE public health guidance development process (third edition) (PMG5)
The NICE public health guidance development process (third edition)
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Topic selection
- 3 The guidance development processes
- 4 The role of stakeholders in the guidance development process
- 5 The role of the Public Health Advisory Committees (PHACs) in the development of public health guidance
- 6 The role of evidence providers
- 7 The role of the CPHE project team
- 8 Fieldwork
Methods for the development of NICE public health guidance (third edition) (PMG4)
Methods for the development of NICE public health guidance (third edition)
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Topic selection and scoping the guidance
- 3 Determining the evidence for review and consideration
- 4 Identifying the evidence
- 5 Reviewing the scientific evidence
- 6 Incorporating health economics
- 7 Developing recommendations
- Appendix A Conceptual framework for the work of the Centre for Public Health Excellence (CPHE)
Remdesivir and tixagevimab plus cilgavimab for treating COVID-19 [ID6261]
In development [GID-TA11297] Expected publication date: 08 May 2024
enough to be used for a specific condition and for a specific group of patients, and that they can manufacture the medicine to the...
these recommendations making the region one of the least active in England (Public Health England, 2016). Many physiotherapists discuss...
In development [GID-TA10992] Expected publication date: 15 May 2024
Standards framework for shared-decision-making support tools, including patient decision aids (ECD8)
This framework sets out a series of standards to support people using patient decision aids (PDAs) in assessing the usefulness and quality of a PDA
Improving pre-meal patient hand hygiene compliance; A quality improvement collaborative.
Patients at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust (GEH) identified that patient compliance/ knowledge associated with pre-meal
Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control (PH36)
This quality improvement guide was produced by NICE, in partnership with Public Health England (PHE). Its aim is twofold: to reduce the risk of harm from healthcare-associated infections for patients, staff and visitors; and to reduce the costs associated with preventable infection.
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Sections for PH36
- Overview
- Introduction
- Quality improvement statement 1: Board-level leadership to prevent HCAIs
- Quality improvement statement 2: Be a learning organisation
- Quality improvement statement 3: HCAI surveillance
- Quality improvement statement 4: Workforce capacity and capability
- Quality improvement statement 5: Environmental cleanliness
- Quality improvement statement 6: Multi-agency working to reduce HCAIs
Physical activity: for NHS staff, patients and carers (QS84)
This quality standard covers encouraging physical activity in people of all ages who are in contact with the NHS, including staff, patients and carers. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS84
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Advice for adults during NHS Health Checks
- Quality statement 2: Advice for parents or carers as part of the Healthy Child Programme 2-year review
- Quality statement 3: Advice for parents or carers as part of the National Child Measurement Programme
- Quality statement 4: Implementing a physical activity programme for employees in NHS organisations
- Update information
- About this quality standard
This guideline covers how general dental practice teams can convey advice about oral hygiene and the use of fluoride. It also covers diet, smoking, smokeless tobacco and alcohol intake.
In development [GID-TA10813] Expected publication date: 15 May 2024
In development [GID-TA11381] Expected publication date: 15 May 2024
Improving Patient Safety: Error Reporting and Risk Management
reporting of medication related patient safety incidents and subsequently learning from such medicines related patient...
Community pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing (NG102)
This guideline covers how community pharmacies can help maintain and improve people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing, including people with a long-term condition. It aims to encourage more people to use community pharmacies by integrating them within existing health and care pathways and ensuring they offer standard services and a consistent approach. It requires a collaborative approach from individual pharmacies and their representatives, local authorities and other commissioners.
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing Lyme disease in people of all ages. It also includes raising public awareness about prevention. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This guideline covers good practice for developing and updating local formularies in line with statutory requirements. It supports developing formularies that reflect local needs, reduce variation in prescribing, and allow rapid adoption of new medicines and treatments.
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.
Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population (NG63)
This guideline covers making people aware of how to correctly use antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) and the dangers associated with their overuse and misuse. It also includes measures to prevent and control infection that can stop people needing antimicrobials or spreading infection to others. It aims to change people’s behaviour to reduce antimicrobial resistance and the spread of resistant microbes.
This quality standard covers preventing further cardiovascular disease after a myocardial infarction (heart attack). It includes assessment and cardiac rehabilitation. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS99
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Assessment of left ventricular function
- Quality statement 2: Referral for cardiac rehabilitation
- Quality statement 3: Communication with primary care
- Quality statement 4: Cardiac rehabilitation – assessment appointment
- Quality statement 5 (developmental): Options for cardiac rehabilitation
- Using the quality standard
Obesity in adults: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes (QS111)
This quality standard covers preventing adults (aged 18 and over) from becoming overweight or obese. It includes strategies to increase physical activity and promote a healthy diet in the local population. It also covers lifestyle weight management programmes for adults who are overweight or obese. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS111
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Vending machines
- Quality statement 2: Nutritional information at the point of choosing food and drink options
- Quality statement 3: Prominent placement of healthy options
- Quality statement 4: Maintaining details of local lifestyle weight management programmes
- Quality statement 5: Publishing performance data on local lifestyle weight management programmes
- Quality statement 6: Raising awareness of lifestyle weight management programmes
This quality standard covers preventing and controlling infections in hospitals and other secondary care settings that develop because of treatment or from being in a healthcare setting (healthcare-associated infections). It includes monitoring, responsibilities, and policies and procedures in secondary care organisations to reduce the risk of infection in patients, staff and visitors. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS113
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Surveillance
- Quality statement 2: Collaborative action
- Quality statement 3: Responsibilities of hospital staff
- Quality statement 4: Planning, design and management of hospital facilities
- Quality statement 5: Admission, discharge and transfer
- Using the quality standard
department at University Hospital Bristol identified, through benchmarking with Public Health England, a higher than expected surgical...
This guideline covers how local communities, with support from local organisations and networks, can help prevent people from becoming overweight or obese or help them lose weight. It aims to support sustainable and community-wide action to achieve this.
Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use (NG15)
This guideline covers the effective use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics) in children, young people and adults. It aims to change prescribing practice to help slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and ensure that antimicrobials remain an effective treatment for infection.
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
The Photo at Discharge (PaD) for our cardiac surgery patients improves information and advice on wound care in line with NICE Quality
This guideline covers alcohol problems among people over 10. It aims to prevent and identify such problems as early as possible using a mix of policy and practice.
Setmelanotide for treating obesity and hyperphagia in Bardet-Biedl syndrome [ID3947]
In development [GID-TA10834] Expected publication date: 22 May 2024
This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing irritable bowel syndrome in adults. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Obesity in children and young people: prevention and lifestyle weight management programmes (QS94)
This quality standard covers preventing children and young people (under 18) from becoming overweight or obese, including strategies to increase physical activity and promote a healthy diet in the local population. It also covers lifestyle weight management programmes for children and young people who are overweight or obese. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS94
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Vending machines
- Quality statement 2: Nutritional information at the point of choosing food and drink options
- Quality statement 3: Prominent placement of healthy options
- Quality statement 4: Maintaining details of local lifestyle weight management programmes
- Quality statement 5: Raising awareness of lifestyle weight management programmes
- Quality statement 6: Family involvement in lifestyle weight management programmes
This quality standard covers preventing dementia, and assessment, management and health and social care support for people with dementia. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS184
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Raising awareness – health promotion interventions
- Quality statement 2: Diagnosis
- Quality statement 3: Advance care planning
- Quality statement 4: Coordinating care
- Quality statement 5: Activities to promote wellbeing
- Quality statement 6: Managing distress
- Quality statement 7: Supporting carers
This quality standard covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover areas of national policy, such as the UK Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunisation programme.
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Sections for QS141
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Latent tuberculosis testing for people from high-incidence countries
- Quality statement 2: Latent tuberculosis testing for adults with HIV
- Quality statement 3: Rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
- Quality statement 4: Assessment
- Quality statement 5: Directly observed therapy
- Quality statement 6: Accommodation
- Update information
This quality standard covers the care of people with breast cancer after they have been referred to a specialist team. It includes the management of early (ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive), locally advanced and advanced breast cancer; recurrent breast cancer; and familial breast cancer. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS12
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Timely diagnosis
- Quality statement 2: Preoperative MRI scan
- Quality statement 3: Gene expression profiling
- Quality statement 4: ER and HER2 receptor status
- Quality statement 5: Multidisciplinary team management of metastatic breast cancer
- Quality statement 6: Key worker
This guideline covers contraceptive services for under-25s. It aims to ensure all under-25s are given advice and information on all types of contraception. This includes additional tailored support to meet the particular needs and choices of those who are socially disadvantaged or who may find it difficult to use these services.
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In development [GID-TA10646] Expected publication date: 15 May 2024
This quality standard covers managing intravenous (IV) fluid therapy safely and effectively for adults in hospital. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS66
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Intravenous fluids lead
- Quality statement 2: Healthcare professionals' competencies in hospitals
- Quality statement 3: Intravenous fluid management plan
- Quality statement 4: Identifying and reporting consequences of fluid mismanagement
- Using the quality standard
- Diversity, equality and language
This quality standard covers the effective use of antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics) to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance, which is when antimicrobial medicines lose their effectiveness. It covers all settings and all types of antimicrobials for treating bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS121
- Introduction
- List of quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Advice on self-limiting conditions
- Quality statement 2: Back-up (delayed) prescribing
- Quality statement 3: Recording information
- Quality statement 4: Microbiological samples
- Quality statement 5: Data collection and feedback
- Quality statement 6 (developmental statement): electronic prescribing systems
Community pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing (QS196)
This quality standard covers how community pharmacies can support the health and wellbeing of the local population. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing urinary tract infections in adults aged 16 and over. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Sections for QS90
- Quality statements
- Quality statement 1: Diagnosing urinary tract infections in women under 65
- Quality statement 2: Diagnosing urinary tract infections in adults with catheters
- Quality statement 3: Antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria in men and non-pregnant women
- Quality statement 4: Duration of antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infection
- Quality statement 5: Referring adults with recurrent urinary tract infection
- Update information
- About this quality standard
Diane Davies Biography Lay member. Diane worked in education, public health and community regeneration roles before leaving to care for...
2017 and 2019. It was designed to keep the patient very much in the centre of their care with regular patient/carer remote...