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This quality standard covers prevention, behavioural management, assessment, and treatment of overweight, obesity and central adiposity in children and young people aged over 2 years, and adults. This includes those with established comorbidities, and those with risk factors for other medical conditions. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Recording BMI and waist-to-height ratio in adults
- Quality statement 2: Recording BMI in children and young people aged over 2 years
- Quality statement 3: Access to services for people with a learning disability
- Quality statement 4: Maintaining details of local and national overweight and obesity management interventions and services
- Quality statement 5: Providing information about local and national weight management interventions and services
- Quality statement 6: Wraparound care alongside medicines for weight management
- Quality statement 7: Advice and support after stopping medicines for weight management or completing behavioural interventions
This guideline covers how to make shared decision making part of everyday care in all healthcare settings. It promotes ways for healthcare professionals and people using services to work together to make decisions about treatment and care. It includes recommendations on training, communicating risks, benefits and consequences, using decision aids, and how to embed shared decision making in organisational culture and practices.
Mavacamten for treating symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (TA913)
Evidence-based recommendations on mavacamten (Camzyos) for symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
This guideline covers the main risk factors linked with cardiovascular disease: poor diet, physical inactivity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. It aims to reduce the high incidence of cardiovascular disease. This, in turn, will help prevent other major causes of death and illness, such as type 2 diabetes and many cancers.
Filgotinib for treating moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (TA676)
Evidence-based recommendations on filgotinib (Jyseleca) for moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis in adults.
Omalizumab for treating severe persistent allergic asthma (TA278)
Evidence-based recommendations on omalizumab (Xolair) for treating severe persistent allergic asthma in people aged 6 and over.
This quality standard covers care for adults before, during and after primary elective hip, knee or shoulder joint replacement. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover joint replacement as treatment for primary or secondary cancer affecting the bones.
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- Quality statement 1: Preoperative rehabilitation advice for hip and knee replacement
- Statement 2: Choice between partial and total knee replacement
- Statement 3: Tranexamic acid during hip and knee replacement
- Quality statement 4: Preventing implant selection errors
- Statement 5: Postoperative rehabilitation
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Evidence-based recommendations on palbociclib (Ibrance) as initial endocrine-based therapy for hormone-receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, locally advanced or metastatic (secondary) breast cancer in adults.
This guideline covers assessing all chronic pain (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both) and managing chronic primary pain in people aged 16 years and over. Chronic primary pain is pain with no clear underlying cause, or pain (or its impact) that is out of proportion to any observable injury or disease.
Belimumab for treating active autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus (TA752)
Evidence-based recommendations on belimumab (Benlysta) for treating active autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus.
Talimogene laherparepvec for treating unresectable metastatic melanoma (TA410)
Evidence-based recommendations on talimogene laherparepvec (Imlygic) for treating unresectable metastatic melanoma in adults when systemically administered immunotherapies are not suitable.
Excess winter deaths and illness and the health risks associated with cold homes (NG6)
This guideline covers reducing the health risks (including preventable deaths) associated with living in a cold home. It aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people vulnerable to the cold. Improving the temperature in homes, by improving energy efficiency, may also help reduce unnecessary fuel consumption.
This guideline covers identifying and caring for adults who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in their own home or a care home. It offers advice on how oral, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition support should be started, administered and stopped. It aims to support healthcare professionals identify malnourished people and help them to choose the most appropriate form of support.
Dacomitinib for untreated EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (TA595)
Evidence-based recommendations on dacomitinib (Vizimpro) for untreated locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer in adults.
Nivolumab with ipilimumab for untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma (TA780)
Evidence-based recommendations on nivolumab (Opdivo) with ipilimumab (Yervoy) for untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma in adults.