Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides

NICE: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued a clinical guideline on antibiotic prophylaxis against infective endocarditis (IE).  In a significant change to current clinical practice, the guideline recommends that antibiotics to prevent IE should not be given to adults and children with structural cardiac defects at risk of IE who are undergoing dental and non-dental interventional procedures.
Press release ~ Antimicrobial prophylaxis against infective endocarditis
 
NICE: Ivan Lewis, Care Services Minister, has announced the publication of good practice guidance for health professionals and their partners on the transition planning for young people moving into adulthood. Transition from children's to adult health services is recognised as an important issue, as more children are now surviving into adult life with conditions which once would have been fatal in early childhood.  
 
Many of these conditions will be unfamiliar to health professionals working in adult service and often the young person needs care from a number of different specialities.  The co-ordination of care which they have received in children's services all too often fades away when they transfer to adult care.
Press release ~ Transition: Moving on Well ~ Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People ~ DH: Transition from children's to adult health services ~ MCH 13-24: The transition of young adults with disability: A study of the effectiveness of inter-agency transitional planning ~ Aiming High for Disabled Children ~ Council for Disabled Children ~ Preventing Social Exclusion of Disabled Children and Their Families ~ Family Fund ~ Support groups for parents of disabled children : Directgov ~ Support for families of disabled children - Every Child Matters
 
WAG: Pooled council and NHS budgets will help create more efficient services in Wales, Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Dr Brian Gibbons, said recently when he issued new guidance to local authorities and NHS bodies on how to set up & manage pooled budgets.
 
Joint budgets should help local public bodies plan more effectively and provide clearer direction for people, resulting in joined-up services built around the needs of the citizen rather than the financial constraints of the organisations providing the services. Budgets could be pooled where councils and NHS bodies provide services for the same groups of people ensuring that funding is directed to those people in most need no matter
 Press release ~ WAG - Pooling Resources ~ WAG - Improving public services ~ WAG - Local Service Boards ~ CLG – Pooling Resources across a sector
 
PR: Following industry-wide consultation, the Pensions Regulator has published updated guidance to support trustees & employers dealing with events that may impact upon their pension scheme, and when applying for a clearance statement – See ‘Business and other Briefings’ for more details.
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