Guidelines on the care of children’s teeth from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and which included input from a dental academic from Plymouth University, have formed part of a debate in Parliament about ways to improve children’s oral care in the UK.
The debate drew upon recommendations issued by NICE at the end of 2014, which stated that nurseries and...
Peter Jenks, Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, has been awarded to a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fellowship.
As a NICE Fellow, Peter will be an ambassador for infection prevention and control and will have the opportunity to use his expertise to shape NICE guidance and initiatives and drive a quality improvement...
Reducing the number of patients who experience a Surgical Site Infection (SSI) could hit hospitals financially, new research has found.
The research, led by Consultant Microbiologist Dr Peter Jenks from Plymouth, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Hospital Infection. It is available on their website.
Surgical Site Infections – infections which develop at the...
A significant milestone for patients with severe life-threatening asthma has been reached following a stipulation by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that NHS funding for the asthma medicine Xolair® (omalizumab) must now be made available to eligible patients.
NICE has determined that people with severe allergic asthma, who are on continuous or frequent oral...
Hundreds of thousands of women across England and Wales could be spared the distress and uncertainty of a breast cancer diagnosis by taking a daily pill to help prevent the disease. Updated guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the NHS should give tamoxifen or raloxifene to particular groups of women with a family history of cancer [1] because the drugs...
