New NICE Initiative Launched: Good Community Medicines Support

Source: NICE The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with a number of partner organisations, including Skills for Care, to launch a new initiative to encourage better medicines support for people who are receiving social care services...

NICE Impact Stroke Report

Source: NICE   There are more than 100,000 strokes in the UK each year causing 38,000 deaths, making it a leading cause of death and disability. The National Institute for Health and Excellence (NICE) Impact Stroke Report focuses on how evidence-based guidance...

New Guidelines on Supporting Adults with Cerebral Palsy

Source: NICE NICE has recently published a Cerebral palsy in adults guideline, which has several recommendations relevant to social care practitioners including recommendations on support with communication, vocational skills and independent living, electronic...

Maximising Personal Autonomy at the heart of new guidelines

Source: NICE Nageena Khalique QC is a barrister and Chair of the Committee for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on supporting decision making. Here, she shares her thoughts on why its use is fundamental for health and care...

A family and carers quick guide for people with dementia

Source: NICE.org This quick guide is designed to get the right information to people working in the health and social care sector to pass on to families. Planning for the here and now After a diagnosis, the person should be directed to the services that can give them...

Managing medicines in care homes and in the community

A free webinar for Registered Managers The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is hosting a free webinar regarding key recommendations on medicines policies. The webinar will provide an overview of the newly published Medicines management for people receiving...