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National Guidelines

This section is intended for the use of healthcare professionals rather than for members of the public or people diagnosed with conditions. 

 

Guidelines

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  • Plain English version of SIGN guidelines

Diabetes

SIGN has developed a decision-support toolkit, which can be used on a desktop browser or mobile app, which helps healthcare professionals to support people with type 1 diabetes to improve their blood glucose control. You will find the link to this toolkit below in the first link.

 

SIGN

  • SIGN: Decision support toolkit
  • SIGN 116 Management of diabetes
  • SIGN 154: Pharmacological management of glycaemic control in people with type 2 diabetes
  • SIGN 172: Prevention and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes

Plain English

  • Plain English version of guideline - Diabetes

NICE

  • NG28: Type 2 diabetes in adults: management
  • NG17: Type 1 diabetes in adults: diagnosis and management
  • NG3: Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period
  • NG18: Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management
  • PH38: Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk

Scottish Government

  • Diabetes Improvement Plan: Commitments 2021-2026
  • A Healthier Future: type 2 Diabetes prevention, early detection and intervention: framework (2018)

Other national

  • Scottish Perinatal Network Guidance on the Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) in pregnancy

Frailty

 

 

National

  • Ageing and Frailty Standards
  • Frailty pathways toolkit
  • Frailty toolkit England

Heart Disease

 

 

SIGN

  • SIGN 147 Management of Chronic Heart Failure
  • SIGN 148: Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • SIGN 149 Risk estimation and prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • SIGN 150: Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • SIGN 151: Management of Stable Angina
  • SIGN 152:Cardiac Arrhythmias in Coronary Heart Disease

Respiratory

 

 

National

  • Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management
  • British guideline on the management of asthma

NICE & Scottish Government

  • Respiratory conditions | Topic | NICE
  • Scottish Government respiratory care action plan

Stroke

 

 

National

  • National Clinical Guideline for Stroke
  • Progressive Stroke Pathway: Produced by the National Advisory Committee for Stroke (NACS)
  • National clinical guideline for stroke for the UK and Ireland
  • Published guidance, NICE advice and quality standards

Plain English

  • Plain English version of guideline - Stroke

Scottish

  • Scottish Stroke Care Audit
  • Scottish Perinatal Network: Guidelines for the Management of Suspected Stroke in Pregnancy
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