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This quality standard covers assessing and managing obesity in adults, young people and children, including referral for specialist care and bariatric (weight loss) surgery. It includes people who are obese and have, or are at risk of, other medical conditions. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Informing people of their BMI
- Quality statement 2: Discussion on the choice of interventions
- Quality statement 3: Referring children and young people for specialist care
- Quality statement 4: Referring adults with type 2 diabetes for bariatric surgery assessment
- Quality statement 5: Referring adults for bariatric surgery assessment
- Quality statement 6: Follow-up care after bariatric surgery
- Quality statement 7: Nutritional monitoring after discharge from the bariatric surgery service
End of life care for infants, children and young people (QS160)
This quality standard covers end of life care for infants, children and young people (from birth to 18 years) who have a life-limiting condition. Life-limiting conditions are those that are expected to result in an early death for the person. It also covers support for family members and carers. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Advance care plan
- Quality statement 2: Named medical specialist
- Quality statement 3: Emotional and psychological support
- Quality statement 4: Specialist paediatric palliative care team
- Quality statement 5: Support for grief and loss for parents or carers
- Quality statement 6: Care at home
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This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing hip fracture in adults (aged 18 and over). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Multidisciplinary management
- Quality statement 2: Timing and expertise for surgery
- Quality statement 3: Intracapsular fracture
- Quality statement 4: Trochanteric fracture
- Quality statement 5: Subtrochanteric fracture
- Quality statement 6: Rehabilitation after surgery
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This quality standard covers diagnosing, assessing and managing cerebral palsy in children and young people under 25. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Follow-up for children with major risk factors for cerebral palsy
- Quality statement 2: Referral for children with delayed motor milestones
- Quality statement 3: Information for parents and carers of children and young people with cerebral palsy
- Quality statement 4: Personal folders for children and young people with cerebral palsy
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This quality standard covers the management of Parkinson’s disease in adults. It does not include treatment of parkinsonism not caused by Parkinson’s disease. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Point of contact with specialist services
- Quality statement 2: Information about impulse control disorders
- Quality statement 3: Referral to physiotherapy, occupational therapy or speech and language therapy
- Quality statement 4: Levodopa in hospital or a care home
- Quality statement 5: Access to clozapine for treating hallucinations and delusions
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This quality standard covers the prevention or delay of harmful use of drugs by children, young people and adults most likely to start using drugs, or already experimenting or using drugs occasionally. This includes illegal psychoactive substances, solvents, volatile substances, image- and performance-enhancing drugs, prescription-only medicines and over-the-counter medicines. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Assessment of looked-after children and young people
- Quality statement 2: Assessment of care leavers
- Quality statement 3: Assessment of children and young people in contact with youth offending services
- Quality statement 4: Information and advice for adults
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This quality standard covers assessing and managing trauma (complex fractures, non-complex fractures, major trauma and spinal injury) in adults, young people and children. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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Service user experience in adult mental health services (QS14)
This quality standard covers improving the experience of people using adult NHS mental health services. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Empathy, dignity and respect
- Quality statement 2: Decision making
- Quality statement 3: Involvement to improve services
- Quality statement 4: Contacts for ongoing care
- Quality statement 5: Access to services
- Quality statement 6: Joint care planning
- Quality statement 7: Inpatient contact with staff
This quality standard covers the period before, during and after a young person moves from children’s to adults’ services in all settings where transitions from children’s to adults’ health or social care services take place. It covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. This includes young people with mental health problems, disabilities and long-term, life-limiting or complex needs, rare diseases and those in secure settings or under the care of local authorities. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Planning transition
- Quality statement 2: Coordinated transition plan
- Quality statement 3: Annual meeting
- Quality statement 4: Named worker
- Quality statement 5: Meeting a practitioner in adults' services
- Quality statement 6: Missed initial appointments after transfer to adults' services
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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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- 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
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Learning disability: identifying and managing mental health problems (QS142)
This quality standard covers the prevention, assessment and management of mental health problems in people with learning disabilities in all settings (including health, social care, education, and forensic and criminal justice). It also covers family members, carers and care workers.
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- Quality statement 1: Annual health check
- Quality statement 2: Assessment by a professional with relevant expertise
- Quality statement 3: Key worker
- Quality statement 4: Tailoring psychological interventions
- Quality statement 5: Annually documenting the reasons for continuing antipsychotic drugs
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This quality standard covers diagnosing and managing menopause in women, including women who have premature ovarian insufficiency (menopause before the age of 40, which can occur naturally or as a result of medical or surgical treatment). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Diagnosing perimenopause and menopause
- Quality statement 2: Diagnosing premature ovarian insufficiency
- Quality statement 3: Managing premature ovarian insufficiency
- Quality statement 4: Reviewing treatments for menopausal symptoms
- Quality statement 5: Information for women having treatment likely to cause menopause
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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.
Early years: promoting health and wellbeing in under 5s (QS128)
This quality standard covers services to support the health, and social and emotional wellbeing of children under 5, including vulnerable children who may need extra support. It includes health visitor services, childcare and early years education, and early intervention services in children’s social care. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This quality standard covers contraception for women, including emergency contraception. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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