New NICE guidance published on Delirium and Dementia
This month NICE have published 2 new guidelines:
- Delirium: diagnosis, prevention and management
- Quality standard of dementia
The first guideline 'Delirium: diagnosis, prevention and management' is a care guideline which covers the care of adults (18 or over) with, or at risk of, delirium in hospital and in long-term residential care or a nursing home. It does not look at people receiving end-of-life care, or people under the influence of or withdrawing from drugs or alcohol, or people with delirium associated with drugs or alcohol.
The second guideline 'Quality standard for dementia' is a service guideline. This quality standard defines a high standard of care within this topic area. It provides specific, concise quality statements, measures and audience descriptors and provides a description of what a high-quality dementia service should look like.
back to top National Mental Health Development Unit Guidance
The National Mental Health Development Unit have published a guide describing the effective ways of recognising and meeting the psychological and emotional needs of people who have experienced homelessness. The guide outlines the national policy context, the research evidence which informs developing practice, and explores the issues for service providers and commissioners.
Click here to access 'Meeting the psychological and emotional needs of people who are homeless'
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This month there has been 1 newly published or updated review from the Cochrane Library:
There has been 15 abstracts of reviews from DARE published:
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There have been 3 newly published study from the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NEED):
back to top Court experiences of adults with mental health conditions
The Ministry of Justice have published a series of reports presenting the background, findings and recommendations of a research project examining court experiences of adults with mental health conditions or learning disabilities.
Click here to access all 6 reports:
Court experiences of adults with mental health conditions and learning disabilities
back to top Position Statements
The Royal College of Psychiatrists produce position statements, the statements are approved by the College's Central Policy Co-ordination Committee (CPCC) and are concise statements of College policy: Self-harm, suicide and risk: a summary
back to top Policy reports and service development
Alzheimer's Society
Audit Commission
Care Quality Commission
Department of Health
Faculty of Public Health
HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Mental Health Foundation
NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care
The Centre for Social Justice
The Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care University of Bedfordshire
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NHS Choices - Behind the Headlines
back to top Useful Links
This months useful links are as follows:
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NHS Evidence - mental health are now on twitter! You can follow us by clicking this link. We will be sending daily/weekly tweets letting our users know about the most up to date mental health evidence available! It is the easiest way to keep up to date with mental health information.
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