Health Professional Advice

Our healthcare advisers provide guidance to all our staff about a range of healthcare matters.

Click on the headings to read all guidance relating to each healthcare area.

Click on the links to find more information relating to each healthcare area.

> Rehabilitation
> Infection and Prevention Control
> Nutrition
> Tissue Viability
> Medical
> Continence
> Palliative and end of life care
> Mental Health
> Medicines Management
> Oral care for Older People
> Other Useful Websites 

• Rehabilitation
  • Falls prevention and management
  • Dementia
  • Meaningful activity
    
    
• Infection and Prevention Control Guidance Notes
  
  
  Information on Legionnaires’ disease and how to properly manage the risks
  
  Outbreak of E.coli 0157 infection at Rose Lodge Nursery, Aboyne May 2012. Report of the Incident Management Team
  
  NHS Education for Scotland (Healthcare Associated Infection) - This site provides information on latest developments relating to health care associated infection and education.
  
  Health Protection Scotland
  
  General information and infection prevention and control precautions to prepare for and manage norovirus in care homes
  
  Health Protection Scotland - New Exclusion Criteria for Childcare Settings (Daycare and Childminding Settings) December 2011
  
  Preventing listeriosis
  The FSA have just published a leaflet "Preventing listeriosis in hospitals and nursing/care homes" as interim guidance until new comprehensive advice and guidance for hospitals and healthcare workers is completed during 2013.

 

• Nutrition Guidance Notes
  

  
  Bapen - nutritional risk screening MUST (Malnutrition Universal Nutrition Screening Tool)
  
  British Dietetic Association - food textured modified diets
  
  Caroline Walker Trust - eating well for older people practical and nutritional guidelines for food in residential, nursing homes and community meals
  
  Enternal Tube Feeding Best Practice Statement 
  
  NHS Scotland - nutrition of elderly people and nutritional aspects of their long term care settings (CRAG report) 

  
  NHS Nutrition Website - Providing good nutritional care is key to people's health, wellbeing and recovery. 

  Water for Healthy Ageing Toolkit
  
  

• Tissue Viability Guidance Notes
  
  Wounds UK 
  
  Tissue Viability Online
  
  Leg Ulcer Forum 
  
  Journal of wound care 
  
  European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
  
  

• Medical Guidance Notes
  
  General Medical Council
  
  
• Continence Guidance Notes
  
  Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence (ERIC)
  Promocon 
  
  Continence Foundation 
  
  Association of Continence Advice
  
  Female urinary catheters causing trauma to adult males 
   
  
• Palliative and end of life care Guidance Notes
  
  NHS Scotland Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) - integrated adult policy
  Cancer Research UK
  Cruse Bereavement Care
  Glasgow Palliative Care
  Liverpool Care Pathway
  Macmillan Cancer Support
  Maggie‘s Cancer Caring Centres
  Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care
  Advance and Anticipatory Care Planning Toolkit
  Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief
  Dying Matters
  
  
  Children and Young People
  
  Childrens Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS)
  Childhood Bereavement Network 
  Delivery of Palliative Care for Children and Young People in Scotland 
  RD4U
  Together for Short Lives Scotland
  Willow Foundation
  Winston’s Wish
  
  
• Mental Health Guidance Notes
  
  

  Mental Welfare Commission
  
  Alzheimer's Scotland - Action on Dementia
  
  Bradford Dementia Group
  
  Dementia Services Development Centre
  
  NHS Health Scotland
  
  Public Health Institute of Scotland
  
  Royal College of Nursing
  
  Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  
  Revised adult with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 Part 5 Code of Practice
  
  Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
  
  Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health
  
  Scottish Government
  
  

• Medicines Management Guidance Notes
  
  

  Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 Code of Practice (Third Edition)
   
  3 year AWI Section 47 Certificate and Flow-chart
  
  Mental Welfare Commission 

  New Guidance on Controlled Drugs from Accountable Officer's Network, Scotland
  
  

  Medications & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency 
  
  > Care Home Staff - a one stop resource for care home staff
  
  Good practice relating to the storage and use of medicinal gases
  
  British National Formulary [BNF]
  
  Nursing & Midwifery Council
  
  > Standards for Medicines Management
  
  > Record Keeping: Guidance for Nurses and Midwives
  
  Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  
  > Handling of medicines in social care
  
  > Principles of Safe and Appropriate Production of Medicines Administration Recording Charts
  
  > The Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines: A Team Approach
  
  SIGN Management of Patients with Dementia
  
  Schools/early years: Administration of medicines in schools
  
  Swallowing difficulties protocol
  

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Other Useful Websites

> Health Improvement Scotland

> Referrals of concerns to regulatory bodies - Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

> NHS24

> Resuscitation Council UK

> Nursing and Midwifery Council

> Ready Steady Toddler
This website, created by NHS Health Scotland, is a hands on guide to bringing up a toddler who is between 13 months old and 3 years. The website is aimed at parents however it may also be useful for anyone working with young children in an early year's service.

Advice and information for employers of nurses and midwives
Safeguarding adults: if you don't do something, who will?
Raising and escalating concerns: guidance for nurses and midwives
Guidance for the care of older people

The Scottish Government has produced guidance on the provision of equipment and adaptations. The guidance supersedes NHS Circular No 1976 (GEN) 90: Provision by Health Boards and Local Authorities of Aids and Equipment for the Disabled Living at Home and Adaptations to their Homes.

It aims to assist local authorities and their NHS partners to modernise and integrate their equipment and adaptation services within the wider community care context. It includes a list of recommendations for Scottish Government and local partnerships and has implications for care home providers. The guidance should be implemented with immediate effect.