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Consultation on NICE guideline on Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management
This guidance will cover adults, young people and children who are being investigated for suspected asthma, or who have been diagnosed with asthma. It is very wide-ranging covering assessment, objective tests, diagnosis, pharmacological treatments, monitoring control of asthma, self-management, the effect of inhalers on the environment, and information on asthma. Non-pharmacological treatments will not be reviewed in this guidance.
If this is an area of your professional practice and interest, you can prepare for the consultation, by looking at the review questions for this NICE guideline. See (Project documents | Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management | Guidance | NICE)
The consultation is due to start on 21/05/2024 and it will run for 6 weeks, closing on 03/07/2024. APCP contact you again by email when the consultation starts.
We are looking for one or two APCP members to collate comments from the members that we can submit to NICE at the end of the consultation. This could either be a member or members of the APCP respiratory special interest group and/or APCP member(s) with a special interest in Asthma. If you would be interested, please contact (nice@apcp.org.uk). The submission process is uncomplicated and guidance will be provided by the APCP NICE officer.
New NICE guidance was published on 19 March 2024 on Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal septicaemia: recognition, diagnosis and management
This guideline includes the management of babies and children and long-term complications and follow-up for bacterial meningitis and meningococcal disease. This includes the initial acute management on admission and through to discharge and planning future intervention. To read it in full, see https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng240
Development of new guidance in the committee stage a. Over Weight and Obesity Management – https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10182 This guideline includes management in children and young people. Final publication date of the guidance is to be confirmed.
b. Rehabilitation for Chronic Neurological Disorders Including Traumatic Brain Injury. Includes children and young people. Consultation on the draft guidance has been postponed and publication of the final guidance document is due on 15 January 2025. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10181/documents/final-scope
c. Epilepsy – extraordinary review expected publication date is delayed and to be confirmed. This is to review Valproate prescribing in children and adults under 55 years. Consultation 26 November 2024 - 10 January 2025 and Expected publication 21 May 2025. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10181