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This quality standard covers recognising, assessing and managing bipolar disorder in adults (aged 18 and over) in primary and secondary care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Referral for specialist mental health assessment
- Quality statement 2: Personalised care plan
- Quality statement 3: Involving carers in care planning
- Quality statement 4 (developmental): Psychological interventions
- Quality statement 5: Maintaining plasma lithium levels
- Quality statement 6: Valproate
- Quality statement 7: Assessing physical health
Dyspepsia and gastro‑oesophageal reflux disease in adults (QS96)
This quality standard covers investigating and managing symptoms of dyspepsia (indigestion) and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (heartburn or reflux) in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Advice to support self-management
- Quality statement 2: Urgent endoscopy
- Quality statement 3: Testing conditions for Helicobacter pylori
- Quality statement 4: Discussion about referral for non-urgent endoscopy
- Quality statement 5: Referral to a specialist service
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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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- 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
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This quality standard covers the assessment and early management of fever with no obvious cause in babies and children (from birth to 5 years). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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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- 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 quality standard covers diagnosing and managing varicose veins in the legs of adults (aged 18 and over). It includes referral for specialist assessment and treatment options. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers the diagnosis and initial management of ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage in women in their first trimester (up to 13 completed weeks of pregnancy). It includes assessment and diagnosis for women with suspected early pregnancy loss. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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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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- 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
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This quality standard covers preventing and identifying alcohol problems in the community. It includes policy and practice approaches to prevent harmful alcohol use in adults, young people and children. It is particularly relevant to local authorities, the police, and schools and colleges. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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This quality standard covers reducing and preventing tobacco use in adults, young people and children. It includes interventions to discourage people from taking up smoking, tobacco control strategies and smokefree policies. It is particularly relevant to local authorities, schools and colleges, employers and NHS service providers. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Schools and colleges: interventions
- Quality statement 2: Schools and colleges: smokefree grounds
- Quality statement 3: Underage sales
- Quality statement 4: Workplace policy
- Quality statement 5: Healthcare services: employee contracts
- Quality statement 6: Healthcare settings: smokefree grounds
- Quality statement 7: Healthcare settings: nicotine-containing products and stop-smoking pharmacotherapies
This quality standard covers preventing bacterial infection in newborn babies, treating pregnant women and pregnant people whose babies are at risk of infection, and treating newborn babies with suspected or confirmed bacterial infection. It includes when to give antibiotics to prevent and treat neonatal bacterial infection and describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. This includes early-onset (within 72 hours of birth) and late-onset (between 72 hours and 28 days following birth) neonatal infection.
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- Quality statement 1: Intrapartum antibiotics
- Quality statement 2: Assessment for early-onset neonatal infection
- Quality statement 3: Prompt antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 4: Reassessing antibiotic treatment for neonatal infection
- Quality statement 5: Information and support for parents and carers
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This quality standard covers preventing, detecting and managing acute kidney injury in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Raising awareness in people at risk
- Quality statement 2: Identifying acute kidney injury in people admitted to hospital
- Quality statement 3: Response to acute kidney injury warning stage 2 test result
- Quality statement 4: Response to acute kidney injury warning stage 3 test result
- Quality statement 5: Referral for renal replacement therapy
- Quality statement 6: Clinical review after hospital discharge
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This quality standard covers managing urinary incontinence in women (aged 18 and over). It covers assessment, care and treatment options. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Initial assessment
- Quality statement 2: Bladder diaries and lifestyle changes
- Quality statement 3: Containment products
- Quality statement 4: Supervised pelvic floor muscle training
- Quality statement 5: Bladder training
- Quality statement 6: Indwelling catheters
- Quality statement 7: Multidisciplinary team review before surgery or invasive treatment
This quality standard covers assessing and managing bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) in children and young people (aged 18 and under). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Transient loss of consciousness ('blackouts') in over 16s (QS71)
This quality standard covers assessing, diagnosing and referring people (aged 16 and over) who have had a transient loss of consciousness (often called a blackout). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Initial assessment – recording the event, clinical history and physical examination
- Quality statement 2: Initial assessment – 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Quality statement 3: Urgent specialist cardiovascular assessment within 24 hours of the initial assessment
- Quality statement 4: Initial assessment – unnecessary use of electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Quality statement 5: Driving advice
- Quality statement 6: Specialist cardiovascular investigation – ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG)
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