New patient care guidance available

Published: 08 August 2012

New guidelines produced by the National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC) have been published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to address patient care issues across a range of conditions.

The NCGC is a multidisciplinary health services research team funded by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). It produces evidence- based clinical practice guidelines, with the aim of improving the quality of patient care within the NHS in England and Wales. The RCN is an NCGC governance partner.

The new guidelines, Urinary Incontinence in Neurological Diseases, Lower Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease and Osteoporosis: Assessing the Risk of Fragility Fracture are available at www.ncgc.ac.uk