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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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Our guidance helps you hand over care and ensure people are safely transitioned out of the virtual ward environment.
This guideline covers safe midwifery staffing in all maternity settings, including at home, in the community, in day assessment units, in obstetric units, and in units led by midwives (both alongside hospitals and free-standing). It aims to improve maternity care by giving advice on monitoring staffing levels and actions to take if there are not enough midwives to meet the needs of women and babies in the service.
This guideline covers assessing and managing faecal incontinence (any involuntary loss of faeces that is a social or hygienic problem) in people aged 18 and over. It aims to ensure that staff are aware that faecal incontinence is a sign or a symptom, not a diagnosis. It aims to improve the physical and mental health and quality of life of people with faecal incontinence.
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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Transition support for young adults:- What approaches to providing transition support for those who move from child to...
Evidence-based recommendations on blinatumomab (Blincyto) with chemotherapy for consolidation treatment of Philadelphia-chromosome-negative CD19-positive minimal residual disease-negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in adults.
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This quality standard covers prevention of falls and assessment after a fall in people who are living in the community, in a residential care setting or staying in hospital and are:
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- Quality statement 1: Asking people about falls
- Quality statement 2: Comprehensive falls assessment
- Quality statement 3: Interventions to reduce the risk of falls
- Quality statement 4: Checks for injury after an inpatient fall
- Quality statement 5: Safe manual handling after an inpatient fall
- Quality statement 6: Medical examination after an inpatient fall
- Quality statement 7: Multifactorial risk assessment for older people presenting for medical attention
This quality standard covers sexual health, focusing on preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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- Quality statement 1: Asking people about their sexual history
- Quality statement 2: Discussing prevention and testing with people who are at risk of sexually transmitted infections
- Quality statement 3: Condom distribution schemes
- Quality statement 4: Access to sexual health services
- Quality statement 5: Repeat testing for sexually transmitted infections
- Quality statement 6: Partner notification
- Update information
Burosumab for treating X-linked hypophosphataemia in adults (TA993)
Evidence-based recommendations on burosumab (Crysvita) for treating X-linked hypophosphataemia in adults.
Asfotase alfa for treating paediatric-onset hypophosphatasia (HST23)
Evidence-based recommendations on asfotase alfa (Strensiq) for treating paediatric-onset hypophosphatasia in babies, children, young people and adults.
health and social care professionals to proactively consider the possibility of hearing loss.The evidence review for the NICE guideline...
COVID-19 rapid guideline: haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (NG164)
The purpose of this guideline is to maximise the safety of patients who need haemopoietic stem cell transplantation and make the best use of NHS resources, while protecting staff from infection.
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