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Guidance

Guidance and standards in identifying deterioration for health and care professionals.

Guidance

  • Diagnosis and management of community acquired pneumonia in people with learning disability

    Organisation: British Thoracic Society
    Type: Clinical recommendations
    Date published: N/A
    Description: "Clinical recommendations and pragmatic guidance on the risk assessment, prevention and management of 103 community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in people with a learning disability."

  • NICE: Falls in older people

    Organisation: NICE
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: June 2013
    Description: This guideline covers assessment of fall risk and interventions to prevent falls in people aged 65 and over. It aims to reduce the risk and incidence of falls and the associated distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence and mortality.

  • NICE: People with a Learning Disability

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance (general)
    Date published: Nov 2021
    Description: General guidance on working with people with a learning disability including the importance of Annual Health Checks which can help to pick up health conditions, ensure up to date vaccinations, and check that family or carers are getting the support they need.

  • NICE: Pneumonia in Adults

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: July 2022
    Description: Pneumonia in adults: diagnosis and management

  • NICE: Suspected Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management

    Organisation: NICE
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Sept 2017 (update due '23)
    Description: This guideline covers the recognition, diagnosis and early management of sepsis for all populations.

  • Purple All Stars – Check me for sepsis

    Organisation: Purple All Stars
    Type: Video (YouTube)
    Date published:
    Description: Purple All Stars (a creative arts group of people with a learning disability) has produced a song and video about sepsis which aims to educate people with a learning disability and the people who support them, to know what sepsis is and when someone has possible signs to remember to ask the health professionals, ‘Is it sepsis?’

  • Stay Well This Winter

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Guidance booklet
    Date published: Winter 2022/23
    Description: Easy read version of the Stay Well This Winter guidance, which includes guidance on staying warm, looking after your mental health, vaccinations and more

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