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NICE starts new wave of quality standards
NICE has been given 123 new quality standards to work on, and includes for the first time new standards for public health.
Published on 22/03/12 at 02:18pm
The latest set of quality standards cover a wide range of topics, including heart failure, irritable bowel syndrome, skin cancer, and obesity in adults.
NICE will also develop public health quality standards in areas that relate to the NHS, the first time it has ever been asked to do this.
The public health topics cover standards for smoking cessation, encouraging physical activity in all people in contact with the NHS, and for preventing and managing alcohol misuse.
How can technology shape the way we provide care?
Family and care service support for the vulnerable has yet to benefit from the technological developments of our modern world
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Madeleine Starr
Caring is going to happen to all of us; so is it time we dragged support for families who care into the 21st century?
OAPs demand NHS-style care service
Pensioners called on the government on Monday to introduce a national care service funded by general taxation along the lines of the NHS.
The new Fair Care Campaign was set up by the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) to combat the growing crisis in elderly care.
It follows numerous reports recently that have highlighted the failures in the current social care system and comes ahead of a government white paper seeking to integrate funding and commissioning between services, expected later this year.
NPC analysis revealed a postcode lottery of charges for care at home, inadequate standards in both nursing and home care, a lack of proper training and qualifications among care staff and little support for family carers.
A false separation between NHS funded medical care and means-tested social care has also removed thousands of frail elderly people from receiving free care, the NPC said.
