Here you will find the widely used professional guidelines accepted as best practice on clinical matters, health and general professionalism. Expand the headings in the list below for more detail on the subject and specialty areas of each guidelines.
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All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre (AWTTC) is an NHS organisation and delivers a range of services. These services support the best use of medicines to help patients in Wales be healthier and better-informed
The newly launched BNF & BNFC App can be downloaded from the Apple Appstore and Google Play Store and is now free to download without an OpenAthens account.
NHS Wales users can access the BNF either via NICE or Medicines Complete
British National Formulary via NICE
British National Formulary via Medicines Complete (access on NHS Wales site or within the NHS Wales network only)
NHS Wales staff can access the BNFc either via NICE or Medicines Complete
British National Formulary for Children via NICE
British National Formulary for Children via Medicines Complete (access on NHS Wales site or within the NHS Wales network only)
Access the Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People's Nursing 2nd edition
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children and Young People's Nursing Practices provides expert guidance on evidence-based clinical procedures, helping nurses develop sound clinical judgement and confidence.
New chapters address mental health, complementary therapies, learning difficulties, and the deteriorating child, whilst expanded content examines blood glucose monitoring, glucocorticoid treatment, insulin administration, diabetes care, surgical diathermy, non-invasive ventilation, and much more.
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The Guidelines International Network contains links to guidelines published or endorsed by GIN member organisations from across the globe. It also contains a registry of planned guidelines and guidelines in development.
Health Technology Wales Reports & Guidance come in three types:
iRefer is the essential radiological investigation guidelines tool, from The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR). iRefer helps referring GPs, radiographers, clinicians and other healthcare professionals to determine the most appropriate imaging investigation(s) or intervention for patients. It provides practical guidance based on the best available evidence.
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Prepared by RCR, these updates include guidelines that have been published to the iRefer platform, including code, guideline title, and what the update contained.
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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines provides guidance for clinicians through evidence-based, comprehensive and authoritative information on this important aspect of treatment, derived from the latest research and insights from clinical practice (including from patient experts).
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines covers topics such as:
Why and when to deprescribe antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs
Barriers and enablers to deprescribing including physical dependence, social circumstances, and knowledge about the discontinuation process
Distinguishing withdrawal symptoms, such as poor mood, anxiety, insomnia, and a variety of physical symptoms from symptoms of the underlying disorder that medication was intended to treat
The difference between physical dependence and addiction/substance use disorder
Explanation of why and how to implement hyperbolic tapering in clinical practice
Specific guidance on formulations of medication and techniques for making gradual reductions, including using liquid forms of medication, and other approaches
Step-by-step guidance for safely stopping all commonly used antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs, including fast, moderate and slow tapering regimens or schedules for each drug, and guidance on how to tailor these to an individual
Troubleshooting issues which can arise on stopping these medications, including akathisia, withdrawal symptoms, acute or protracted, and relapse.
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Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines 15th edition
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is the essential evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice, this comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice, minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications, prescribing for special patient groups, and more. Each clear and concise chapter includes an up-to-date reference list providing easy access to the evidence on which the guidance is based.
The fifteenth edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest available research, the most recent psychotropic drug introductions, and all psychotropic drugs currently used in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Several new sections cover topics such as deprescribing of major psychiatric drugs, prescribing psychotropics at the end of life, the treatment of agitated delirium, the genetics of clozapine prescribing, the use of weekly penfluridol, and the treatment of psychotropic withdrawal. Featuring contributions by an experienced team of psychiatrists and specialist pharmacists, the new edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry:
Whether in the doctor's office, in the clinic, or on the ward, The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry, Fifteenth Edition is a must-have for psychiatrists, pharmacists, neuropharmacologists, clinical psychologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working in mental health, as well as trainees and students in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing.
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Access NEWT Guidelines
Created by Wrexham Maelor Hospital, the NEWT Guidelines are a resource for pharmacists and other healthcare professionals providing or administering medicines to patients with swallowing difficulties. It includes information on the legal aspects of altering licensed medicine formulations, how to prepare solid dose formulations for administration via enteral feeding tubes, and how to solve problems such as tube blockage and enteral feed interactions
Click the ‘Registered Users Click here to log in’ button and access should be instant when on the NHS Wales network. However, if you are required to enter a username and password, please email elibrary@wales.nhs.uk for the log-in.
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NICE provides evidence-based national clinical guidelines and advice to help improve health and social care. Below, you will find links to specific areas of their website where content is free to access.
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NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries NICE CKS service provides primary care practitioners with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical guidance on best practice in respect of over 330 common and/or significant primary care presentations |
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Please Note: The journals and databases section is only available to NHS Staff in England. You can access journals via NHS Wales e-Library for Health A-Z Journal List and the selection of subscribed databases. |
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Find guidance and advice on conditions and diseases, health protection, lifestyle and wellbeing, population groups and service delivery, organisation and staffing. |
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Quality standards set out priorities for quality improvement. Useful for commissioners, service providers, health, public health and social care practitioners and regulators. |
Wales Pathology Handbook (WPH) is a knowledge service within the Welsh national information architecture.
It provides national and local catalogues of requestable tests, rules and guidance for electronic requesting (via the Welsh Clinical Portal (WCP) and GP systems) and a web-based knowledge resource for all clinical staff.
This resource is only available when connected on the NHS Wales network.
British Endodontic Society
https://britishendodonticsociety.org.uk/professionals/endodontic_publications.aspx
Guideline for reporting on CBCT scans, Guideline for periradicular surgery, Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp
British National Formulary BNF and BNF Children: Dental areas
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/dental-practitioners-formulary
adult dental formulary
https://bnfc.nice.org.uk/dental-practitioners-formulary
child dental formulary
https://bnf.nice.org.uk/guidance/prescribing-in-dental-practice.html
includes medical emergencies in dental practice
British Orthodontic Society
https://bos.org.uk/professionals-members/information-for-dentists/
Quick reference guide to orthodontic assessment and treatment, Making an orthodontic referral, Moving and transferring during treatment, Limited Treatment Orthodontics, Careers in orthodontics
British Society for Disability and Oral Health
https://www.bsdh.org/index.php/bsdh-guidelines
Undergraduate curriculum in special care dentistry (2014), Oral management of oncology patients requiring radiotherapy, chemotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation (2018), Clinical guidelines and integrated care pathways for the oral health care of people with learning disabilities (2012), Clinical holding guidelines (2010), Guidelines for the delivery of a domiciliary oral healthcare service (2009), The provision of oral care under general anaesthesia in special care dentistry – a professional consensus statement (2009), Commissioning tool for special care dentistry (2006), Principles on intervention for people unable to comply with routine dental care, Guidelines for Oral health care for long-stay patients and residents, Guidelines for the development of local standards of oral health care for dependent, dysphagic, critically and terminally ill patients, Oral health care for people with mental health problems, Guidelines for oral health care for people with a physical disability.
British Society for Restorative Dentistry
Crowns, fixed bridges and dental implants guidelines, Tooth wear guidelines, Restorative dentistry for new graduates; an information guide
British Society of Gerodontology
https://www.gerodontology.com/resources/downloads
Guidelines for the development of local standards of oral health care for people with dementia, Guidelines for the Oral Healthcare of Stroke Survivors.
British Society for Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology
https://www.bsomp.org.uk/downloads
The scope of oral pathology, Good practice in oral pathology.
British Society of Paediatric Dentistry
https://www.bspd.co.uk/Professionals/Resources/BSPD-Guidelines
Guidelines: Trauma guidelines for permanent dentition: Covid 19, Trauma guidelines for primary dentition: Covid 19, Clinical holding in the dental care of children, Treatment of avulsed permanent incisor teeth in children, National guidelines for dentists with special interests, Non pharmacological behaviour management, Management and root canal treatment of non-vital immature permanent incisor teeth, Guidelines for periodontal screening and management of children and adolescents.
https://www.bspd.co.uk/Professionals/Resources/Position-Statements
Position statements: Obesity and dental caries, Infant feeding, Water fluoridation, Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation
British Society of Periodontology
https://www.bsperio.org.uk/professionals/publications
BSP flowchart implementing the 2017 classification, Good practitioner’s Guide to Periodontology, BPE guidelines 2019, Parameters of care, Guidelines for Periodontal Patient Referral, Guidelines for Periodontal screening and management of children and adolescents under 18 years of age.
British Society of Prosthodontics
The Guidelines in Prosthetic and Implant Dentistry, Guides to Standards in Prosthetic Dentistry - Complete and Partial Dentures, Guidelines on Standards for the Treatment of Patients using Endosseous Implants, Prosthetic Dentistry Glossary.
COPDEND Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors
https://www.copdend.org/downloads-list/copdend-documents
Quality assurance framework for dental CPD, Guidelines for dental educators, Dental Gold Guide (Specialty Dental Training), Dental Silver Guide (Dental Core Training) .
Department of Health / Public Health England
Dental antimicrobial stewardship: toolkit, Breastfeeding and dental health, Safeguarding in dental practice, Dental caries and obesity; their relationship in children, Decontamination in primary dental care practices (HTM01-05), Dental health: migrant health guide, Health matters: child dental health, Dental epidemiology toolkit for local authorities, Handheld dental x-ray equipment: guidance on safe use, Radiation protection and safety guidance for dental cone beam CT equipment, Covid 19: infection prevention and control, Smokefree and smiling, Adult oral health: applying All Our Health, Delivering better oral health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention, Improving oral health: guideline development manual, Carbon modelling within dentistry: towards a sustainable future, Lasers intense light courses and LEDs, Oral care and people with learning disabilities, Child oral health: applying All Our Health, Improving oral health; community water fluoridation toolkit, General dentistry exposure prone procedure (EPP) categorization, Department of Health: Management and disposal of healthcare waste (HTM 07-01) and many more…
European Society of Endodontology
https://www.e-s-e.eu/for-professionals/resources-for-clinicians/
Quality guidelines for endodontic treatment
Position statements on: Management of deep caries and the exposed pulp,
Use of CBCT in endodontics, revitalization procedures, the use of antibiotics in Endodontics, External cervical resorption.
College of General Dentistry
https://cgdent.uk/standards-guidance/
Standards and Guidelines for Primary Dental Care Professionals including those toward COVID-19, clinical examination and record keeping, antimicrobial prescribing, dementia, radiography and research.
General Dental Council (UK)
https://www.gdc-uk.org/information-standards-guidance/standards-and-guidance
Standards for the dental team, Principles for Complaints Handling, Scope of Practice, Direct Access, More guidance: medical emergencies, industrial action guidance, list of useful organisations and guidance, mandatory reporting on female genital mutilation (FGM), The professional duty of candour, High level principles for good practice in remote consultations and prescribing, and Supplementary guidance on: advertising, child protection and vulnerable adults, commissioning and manufacturing dental appliances, indemnity, prescribing medicines, reporting criminal proceedings, using social media, position statement on tooth whitening.
International Association of Dental Traumatology
General introduction, Fractures and luxations, Avulsion of permanent teeth, Injuries in the primary dentition
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence): Oral and Dental Health area:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/health-and-social-care-delivery/oral-health
Pathways: Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis, Oral health for adults in care homes, Oral health improvement for local authorities and their partners, Oral and dental health,
Guidance: Laser therapy for oral mucositis (IPG615), Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis: antimicrobial prophylaxis against IE in adults and children undergoing interventional procedures (CG64), Oral health for adults in care homes (NG48), Oral health promotion: general dental practice (NG30), Oral health: local authorities and partners (PH55), Mini/micro screw implantation for orthodontic anchorage (IPG238), Therapeutic sialendoscopy (IPG218), HealOzone for the treatment of tooth decay (occlusal pit and fissure caries and root caries) (TA92), Dental checks: intervals between oral health reviews (CG19), Guidance on the Extraction of Wisdom Teeth (TA1)
Quality Standards: Oral health in care homes (QS151), Oral Health Promotion in the community (QS139)
Resuscitation Council (UK)
https://www.resus.org.uk/library/quality-standards-cpr/primary-dental-care
Quality standards: primary dental care, primary dental care equipment list
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for ENT, Oral Maxillofacial and Dental surgery 2020, Standards for conscious sedation in the provision of dental care 2015
See also Guidelines for the management of children referred for dental extractions under general anaesthesia (2011 - Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland / British Society of Paediatric Dentristry)
Royal College of Surgeons England (Dental Faculties)
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/dental-faculties/fds/publications-guidelines/clinical-guidelines
Antimicrobial Prescribing, Peri-radicular Surgery, NHS funded dental implant treatment, Oral Management of Oncology patients, Unerupted maxillary incisors, Palatally ectopic maxillary canines, Extraction of first permanent molars in children, Temporomandibular Disorders, Dental Erosion, Surgical Endodontics, Learning Disabilities; Standards for conscious sedation in the provision of dental care
Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Program (SDCEP)
Acute Dental Problems, Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Anticoagulants and antiplatelets, Bisphosphonates, Caries in children, Conscious Sedation, Covid-19 practice recovery, Decontamination, Dental Amalgam, Drug Prescribing, Emergency Dental Care, MRONJ, Oral Health Assessment, Periodontal Care, Practice Management, SDCEP Dental Companion App,
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
138. Dental interventions to prevent caries in children
United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors’ Organisation
http://www.ukhcdo.org/guidelines
Guidance on the dental management of patients with haemophilia and congenital bleeding disorders (2013)
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Guidelines
Search for guidelines, newsletters and standards from the AAGBI
Royal College of Anaesthetists: Clinical Quality, Standards and Safety Publications
Guidelines and publications produced by the college applicable to all UK public and independent healthcare environments.
Royal College of Emergency Medicine Clinical Standards and Guidance
Access free standards and guidance produced by the Quality in Emergency Care Committee of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Resources
Search through a range of clinical resources to support GP's, healthcare professionals and patients.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Guidelines
Access to guidelines procuced by the college detailing recognised methods and techniques for clinical practice, based on published evidence, for consideration by obstetricians/gynaecologists and other healthcare professionals.
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Endorsed and Supported Clinical Guidelines
High quality guidelines and standards produced and published by other organisations that are supported or endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Royal College of Physicians Guidelines & Policy
Consultations, tools, policy and guidance produced by the college
Royal College of Radiologists Publications
Find a range of publications including standards for the delivery of high-quality oncology services, guidance on good practice and workforce reports.
Royal College of Surgeons Standards & Research
Access good practice, standards, guidance and research produced by the Royal College of Surgeons.
UK Blood Transfusion & Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
This site will be particularly useful for pharmacists, nurses and staff prescribing blood products.
WISDOM aims to provide healthcare staff and students in Wales with access to knowledge in the specialities of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Midwifery.
Access the Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures provides up-to-date, evidence-based clinical skills procedures related to essential aspects of a person’s care.
Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures: User Guide
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Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) develops evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland.
Stahl Online (Cambridge University Press)
Discover the complete Stahl Online collection of teaching and learning neuropsychopharmacology resources, including e-Books, illustrated guides, handbooks and case studies, to support health and care professionals.
View online or download chapters.
Search by topic or title, or refer to the list of titles available within the Stahl Online collection.
Visit the Stahl Drug Lookup to view the A-Z list of psychotropic drugs.
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