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Promoting health and preventing premature mortality in black, Asian and other ethnic minority groups: QS167
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard describing six priority-areas for quality improvement in promoting health and preventing premature mortality among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups. The standard aims to contribute to improvements in the prevalence of excess weight and obesity, physical activity levels, tobacco use, and inequality in hospital admissions and detentions under the Mental Health Act compared with the general population. The six quality statements include ensuring the views of minority ethnic groups are represented in the priority setting and design of local health and wellbeing programmes, that people minority ethnic groups at high risk of type 2 diabetes are referred to an intensive lifestyle change programme, enabling access to mental health services in a variety of community-based settings, and the provision of annual physical health assessments for people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups with serious mental illness. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disabilities: identifying and managing mental health problems: QS142
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
NICE quality standard covering 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. The standard describes what high-quality care looks like in five priority areas. The five quality statements for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems are: for annual health checks to include a review of mental health problems; that mental health assessments are carried out by a professional with expertise in mental health problems; that people with learning disabilities and a serious mental illness have a key worker to coordinate their care; that any psychological interventions are tailored to the preferences of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems; and annually documenting the reasons for continuing antipsychotic drugs. Each quality statement includes the rationale for the statement and suggestions for quality measures that can be used to monitor performance to the standard. (Edited publisher abstract)
Delirium: QS63
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This quality standard covers the prevention, diagnosis and management of delirium in adults (18 years and over) in hospital or long-term care settings. It is designed to contribute to improvements in the following outcomes: length of hospital stay; detection of delirium; incidence of delirium; falls in hospital; mortality; adults' experience of hospital care; and carer involvement in healthcare.
Adult placements and person-centred approaches
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This web-based practice guide is aimed at local authority and health commissioners, practitioners, service users, adult placement scheme staff and carers in England. The guide is based on information from a practice survey that identified emerging and developing practice; a literature review that pulled together the key literature on adult placements; and an analytical report that identified the key messages from these two surveys. It identifies relevant national minimum standards, and highlights findings and case examples from the practice survey, as well as from the literature where available. The Guide contains practice points, including areas of conflict, on-going debate about roles and responsibilities, and the application of person-centred approaches to adult placements. It contains sections on: being person-centred, assessment and referral, matching and introductions, monitoring and review, moving on, adult placement carers, advocacy; and person-centred planning. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 4).
Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings: QS159
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
This quality standard describes priority areas for improvement in the area of transitions for children, young people and adults between mental health hospitals and their own homes, care homes or other community settings. The standard includes the period before, during and after a person is admitted to, and discharged from, a mental health hospital. It consists of four quality statements cover: ensuring people admitted to an inpatient mental health setting have access to independent advocacy services; out of area admissions to have placement reviews every 3 months, improved communication of care plans on discharge, and for people identified as at suicide risk to received follow up within 48 hours of being discharged. For each quality statement the standard provides details of quality measures and suggested data sources. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental wellbeing of older people in care homes: film
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 22 minutes 53 seconds
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
A film commissioned by the NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care to help organisations and people to use the NICE quality standard on mental wellbeing of older people (QS50). The film focuses primarily on an a roundtable event which took place in March 2014 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and included key organisations from the health and social care sector. Also in attendance at the event were some of the older people resident at the Royal Chelsea Hospital infirmary who discussed what the quality statements meant to them and recounted their own experiences of living in a care home. The event discusses each of the six quality statements; what they mean and how they can be put into practice. The standards cover: participation in meaningful activity, personal identity, recognition of mental health conditions, sensory impairment and physical problems; and access to healthcare services. The film also contains interview footage from Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector for Social Care at the Care Quality Commission and Finbarr Martin, a Non-Executive Director at NICE. (Edited publisher abstract)