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Depression in adults: treatment and management

  • NICE guideline
  • Reference number: NG222
  • Published:  29 June 2022

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  1. Decision aids
  2. Education
  3. Summary versions
  4. Audit and service improvement
  5. Resource impact
  6. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Decision aids

  • Decision support tool: making decisions about managing depression

Education

  • Royal College of Psychiatrists: Stopping antidepressants

Summary versions

  • Visual summaries

  • Discussing first-line treatments for less severe depression (PDF 136 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Discussing first-line treatments for more severe depression (PDF 132 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Preventing relapse (PDF 149 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Further-line treatment (PDF 135 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • Treatment options for chronic depression, depression with personality disorder or psychotic depression (PDF 169 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022
  • The matched care model (PDF 145 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022

Audit and service improvement

  • Baseline assessment tool (Excel 80 KB)

    Published:
    29 June 2022

Resource impact

  • Resource impact summary report

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance