Guidelines

Overview This Guidelines summary provides healthcare professionals in primary care with key information and advice to support patients who are living with long COVID, along with resources to support communications with communities. The guideline was published alongside the NHS plan for improving long COVID services and the revised National commissioning guidance for post COVID services. For recommendations on tackling inequalities and further resources, refer to the full guideline.

Patients should be advised that many other organisms cause respiratory infections similar to flu during the flu season, for example, COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), common cold viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

Overview This updated summary of the NICE Clinical Knowledge Summary on constipation has been developed for use by community pharmacists under our Guidelines for Pharmacy title. It therefore only covers the information relevant to this setting, and is deliberately concise. Areas covered in the summary include: advice for those with the condition, management (short-duration and chronic), secondary causes of the condition, and prescribing information.

Overview 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. 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.

Overview This new Guidelines summary of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s pollen food syndrome (PFS) guideline covers recommendations on diagnosing and managing PFS, including information on different allergy tests. It includes useful tables and algorithms to assist understanding and diagnosis.

Identification and assessment in adults Taking measurements in adults Use clinical judgement to decide when to measure a person's height and weight. Opportunities include when registering with a GP, consultations for related conditions (such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and other routine health checks.

Overview This working party guideline was developed and published in 2006 for use with adults who develop a hot swollen native joint acutely—typically with a history of 2 weeks or less—affecting any joint except the axial skeleton. The guideline focuses on the diagnosis and management of septic arthritis; hot swollen joints commonly have other underlying diagnoses, including crystal arthritis, reactive arthritis, and a monoarticular presentation of polyarthritis.

For tables on recommended imaging schedules, refer to the full guideline. See box 1 for definitions of atypical and recurrent urinary tract infection. Send babies and children with atypical UTI (see box 1) for a urinary tract ultrasound during the acute infection, to identify structural abnormalities such as obstruction and to ensure prompt management, as outlined in tables 4, 5 and 6 (see the full guideline).

This site is intended for UK healthcare professionals Overview This updated guideline aims to maximise the safety of patients with cancer and make the best use of NHS resources, while protecting staff from infection. It will also enable services to match the capacity for cancer treatment to patient needs if services become limited because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This site is intended for UK healthcare professionals Overview This Guidelines summary is based on the Green Book chapter 25. It provides information on the pneumococcal disease, the pneumococcal vaccination, and recommendations for vaccination, including in children and clinical risk groups. For a complete set of recommendations, refer to the full guideline.