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<p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines
provide recommendations for the care of individuals in specific clinical conditions
or circumstances within the National Health Service. NICE’s clinical guidelines help
healthcare professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available
evidence. The guidelines are not mandatory, although health and care commissioners
are expected to take them fully into account.</p><p>One of the key priorities of NHS
England’s Long Term Plan is to reduce avoidable admissions to hospital and to ensure
that, when admission is needed, people with dementia and delirium experience the best
possible care.</p><p>We are committed to further expanding the provision of liaison
mental health services so that no acute hospital is without an all-age mental health
liaison service in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and inpatient wards
by 2020/21. The establishment of acute frailty services in all hospitals with a major
A&E department by the end of 2019 will ensure that patients can be assessed, treated
and supported by skilled multidisciplinary teams delivering a geriatric assessment
within the first hour of arrival. These services will support better identification
and treatment of dementia and delirium in hospitals.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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