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Advocacy services for adults with health and social care needs [NG227]
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 82
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers advocacy for people using health and social care services in all adult settings (including young people under 18 using adult services). It describes how to commission and deliver effective advocacy, as well as identifying who should be offered advocacy (including who is legally entitled to it). It also covers monitoring and improving advocacy services, and training and skills for advocates and practitioners. Advocacy helps to ensure that people's voices, wishes and preferences are heard, their rights are upheld and their needs are met, particularly when they have difficulty in speaking up for themselves or are concerned that they are not being heard. This guideline covers advocacy delivered by a trained person whose sole engagement is to support the person and help ensure that their voice, needs and preferences are heard (referred to in law as 'independent advocacy'). Family members and friends play a vital role in the lives of people who draw on support, for example ensuring that the person's voice and concerns are heard. However, the focus of this guidance is on a trained person whose sole involvement is as an advocate. This guideline includes recommendations on the legal right to advocacy and others who may benefit from it; information about advocacy and improving access to it; effective advocacy and enabling effective advocacy; partnership working and relationships; planning and commissioning services; training and skills for advocates and for practitioners who work with them; monitoring for quality improvement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 81
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers assessment, management and preventing recurrence for children, young people and adults who have self-harmed. It includes those with a mental health problem, neurodevelopmental disorder or learning disability and applies to all sectors that work with people who have self-harmed. In this guideline, self-harm is defined as intentional self-poisoning or injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose. The guideline does not cover repetitive, stereotypical self-injurious behaviour (such as head banging). This guideline includes recommendations on: information and support; consent and confidentiality; safeguarding; involving family members and carers; psychosocial assessment and care by mental health professionals; risk assessment tools and scales; assessment and care by healthcare professionals and social care practitioners; assessment and care by professionals from other sectors; admission to and discharge from hospital; initial aftercare after an episode of self-harm; interventions for self-harm; supporting people to be safe after self-harm; safer prescribing and dispensing; training and supervision. (Edited publisher abstract)
Depression in adults: treatment and management
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 101
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers identifying, treating and managing depression in people aged 18 and over. It recommends treatments for first episodes of depression and further-line treatments, and provides advice on preventing relapse, and managing chronic depression, psychotic depression and depression with a coexisting diagnosis of personality disorder. This guideline includes recommendations on: principles of care; recognition and assessment; choice and delivery of treatments; treatment for a new episode of less severe depression; treatment for a new episode of more severe depression; behavioural couples therapy; preventing relapse; further-line treatment; chronic depressive symptoms; depression in people with a diagnosis of personality disorder; psychotic depression; electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation and implanted vagus nerve stimulation; access, coordination and delivery of care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Advocacy services for adults with health and social care needs: in development [GID-NG10156]
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 70
- Place of publication:
- London
This draft guideline covers advocacy for people using health and social care services in all adult settings (including for young people under 18 if they are using adult services). The guideline describes how to commission and deliver effective advocacy, including identifying who should be offered advocacy (including who is legally entitled to it), providing good advocacy, monitoring and improving advocacy services, and training and skills in advocacy. Advocacy helps to ensure that people's voices, wishes and preferences are heard; their rights are upheld and their needs are met, particularly when they have difficulty in speaking up for themselves or are concerned that they are not being heard. Recommendations cover: legal right to advocacy; who else may benefit from advocacy; information about effective advocacy and signposting to services; improving access to advocacy; enabling and supporting effective advocacy; effective advocacy; partnership working and relationships with families and carers, commissioners and providers; planning and commissioning services for advocacy; training, skills and support for advocates; training and skills for health and social care practitioners who work with advocates; monitoring services and collecting data for quality improvement. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work with adults experiencing complex needs
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 68
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers the planning, delivery and review of social work interventions for adults who have complex needs. It promotes ways for social work professionals, other care staff and people with complex needs to work together to make decisions about care and support. Adults with complex needs are defined as people aged 18 or over who need a high level of support with many aspects of their daily life, and relying on a range of health and social care services. This may be because of illness, disability, broader life circumstances or a combination of these. Complex needs may be present from birth or develop over the course of a person's life, and may fluctuate. Unless otherwise specified, when a recommendation refers to 'people' or 'the person', this is the adult with complex needs. This guideline includes recommendations on: principles of social work for adults with complex needs; assessment; individual or family casework; helping people to connect with local communities and reduce isolation; supporting people to plan for the future, including considering changing needs, wishes and capabilities; responding to an escalation of need, including urgent support; social works and multidisciplinary teams: communication, support and collaboration. The guidance may also be relevant for people aged 16 to 18 with complex needs who have completed the transition from children's to adults' services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Disabled children and young people up to 25 with severe complex needs: integrated service delivery and organisation across health, social care and education
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 147
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers support for disabled children and young people with severe complex needs, from birth to 25 years. It aims to encourage education, health and social care services to work together and provide more coordinated support to children and young people, and their families and carers. The guideline includes recommendations on: principles for working with all disabled children and young people with severe complex needs and their families; identifying needs and involving other services; education, health and care needs assessments and plans; personal budgets and direct payments; improving access to social activities; supporting parents and carers; transition from children’s to adults’ services; organising services, including working culture, training, and running joint services. It also covers specialist support for disabled children and young people with particular needs: palliative and end of life care; communication aids; environmental adaptations; travel training; employment. (Edited publisher abstract)
NICE impact: people with a learning disability
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reviews the impact of NICE guidance on improving outcomes for people with a learning disability, highlighting the lack of progress made in many areas. Around 950,000 adults and 300,000 children in England have a learning disability. Many people with a learning disability experience poorer health and die at a younger age. While all of NICE guidance is relevant to a person with a learning disability, they have also produced four guidelines, three quality standards, and one NICE advice product that are specifically on learning disability. The data shows high levels of health inequality and limited positive change over time: avoidable medical causes of death include those that are preventable through effective public health and primary prevention interventions, and those that are treatable by timely and effective healthcare interventions. The evidence also suggests that only 25% of the estimated 1.2 million adults and children in England with a learning disability have their disability recorded on their GP’s register. This could mean that people with a learning disability are not receiving care such as annual health checks, flu vaccinations or, more recently, coronavirus vaccinations. Furthermore, the data shows that too many people with a learning disability are prescribed medication inappropriately or are kept in long-term hospital care against their best interests. The report sets out five key priority areas, identified by stakeholders: the uptake and quality of annual health checks; reasonable adjustments and accessible communication; providing personalised care and supporting people to live independent lives in the community; integrated local commissioning of health, social care and education services; health and social care workforce development. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adults with complex needs: social work interventions including assessment, care management and support
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers the planning, delivery and review of social work interventions for adults who have complex needs. For the purposes of this guideline, adults with complex needs are defined as people aged 18 or over needing a high level of support with many aspects of their daily life, and relying on a range of health and social care services. This may be because of illness, disability, broader life circumstances or a combination of these. Complex needs may be present from birth or develop over the course of a person's life, and may fluctuate. The guideline promotes ways for social work professionals, other care staff and people with complex needs to work together to make decisions about care and support. It includes recommendations on needs and risk assessments, escalation of need, future planning, individual and family casework and helping people with complex needs to connect with their communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Looked-after children and young people: NICE guidelines NG205
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 113
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers how organisations, practitioners and carers should work together to deliver high-quality care, stable placements and nurturing relationships for looked-after children and young people. It aims to help these children and young people reach their full potential and have the same opportunities as their peers. The guideline covers support provided to looked-after children and young people and care leavers (from birth to age 25), and their families and carers (including birth parents, connected carers, prospective adoptive parents and special guardians). This includes all who are classed as 'looked-after' under a full or interim local authority care order, whether temporary or long term. For example, it covers looked-after children and young people on remand, those temporarily looked-after under section 20 of the Children Act 1989, and those preparing to leave care. The guideline covers all parts of the care pathway, from entry of looked-after people into the care system, to support provided when moving into permanency and out of care into independent living. The guideline includes recommendations on: supporting positive relationships; valuing carers; safeguarding; health and wellbeing; learning and education; transition between care placements and to permanent placements, and out of care to independence. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness draft for consultation
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 70
- Place of publication:
- London
This draft guideline covers the targeted approaches that are needed to ensure that people experiencing homelessness have access to the same standard of health and social care as the general population. The main areas covered in the guideline include: how services should be delivered; communication and information; planning and commissioning; models of multidisciplinary service provision; the role of peers; improving access to and engagement with health and social care; outreach services; assessing people’s needs; intermediate care; transitions between different settings; housing with health and social care support; safeguarding; long-term support; and staff support and development. The consultation closes on 3 November 2021 and the final version is due for publication on 16 March 2022. (Edited publisher abstract)