Safety standards
This is a comprehensive summary of the management of chicken pox for pregnant women and babies. It includes an executive summary which highlights recommendations for service provision.
Safety standards
This table can be used to define and interpret cardiotocograph traces and to guide the management of the labour for women who are having continuous cardiotocography.
Safety standards
This quality standard covers assessment after a fall and preventing further falls (secondary prevention) in older people living in the community and during a hospital stay. Secondary prevention focuses on interventions targeted at older people with a history of falls. Older people are those aged 65 years and over.
Safety standards
This set of national standards from the American Association of Diabetes Educators sets out 10 standards which Diabetes Self Management Education programmes should meet to ensure that people with diabetes are being provided with excellence in self management support.
Safety standards
Offers evidence-based advice on the recognition, assessment, care and treatment of mental health problems in women during pregnancy and the postnatal period (up to 1 year after childbirth), and in women who are planning a pregnancy.
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This guideline covers the recognition and management of serious bacterial illness in the antenatal and intrapartum periods and its management in secondary care.
Safety standards
This guideline provides guidance for clinicians in the management of sepsis in the puerperium (sepsis developing after birth until 6 weeks postnatally).
Safety standards
This document summarises all relevant safety standards in the area of critical care for the pregnant or recently pregnant women. These recommendations are applicable to either a specialised maternity care or general critical care unit. This document was particularly created in response to a recognition that there are still significant deaths associated with suboptimal care and that this mortality is higher amongst ethnic minority groups.
Safety standards
This safety standard is aimed at healthcare organisations providing inpatient care for mental health (MH) and learning disability (LD) patients. It requires them to make proper provision for life support and resuscitation for these patients.
Safety standards
This project from 2012 was carried out by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to identify potential problems with the safer management and use of controlled drugs (CDs) in the prison healthcare setting in England.
