NICE GUIDELINES Published May 2019 CROHN’S DISEASE: MANAGEMENT (NG129) This guideline covers the management of Crohn’s disease in children, young people and adults. It aims to reduce people’s symptoms and maintain or improve their quality of life. It includes new re-commendations on maintaining remission after surgery, which supplement the existing recommendations on: • providing information and support, including dietary advice and intervention; • inducing and maintaining remission; • surgery; • monitoring for osteopenia and assessing fracture risk; • conception and pregnancy.
ULCERATIVE COLITIS: MANAGEMENT (NG130) This guideline aims to help professionals to provide consistent high-quality care and highlights the importance of advice and support for people with ulcerative colitis, of all ages. It includes new recommendations on inducing remission in mildto-moderate ulcerative colitis, which supplement the existing recommendations on: • patient information and support including dietary advice; • treating acute severe ulcerative colitis; • providing information about surgery; • maintaining remission; • pregnancy; • monitoring bone health, growth and pubertal development.
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Find the full guideline at www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng129
Read the full guideline at www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng130
ROAD SHOW SUPPORT FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE STUDENTS Wiltshire Farm Foods, one of the UK’s leading home meal delivery services, has been on the road offering Dysphagia Awareness training to health and social care students across the country. The roadshow for the 2018/19 academic year concluded at Bournemouth University, where the team delivered two sessions to the Occupational Therapy Society. The two-hour awareness sessions, aimed at Health and Social Care students at various stages in their education, introduced students to dysphagia and the issues presented when preparing food for individuals suffering from the condition. Tasks were set designed to enhance the students’ future clinical practice, highlighting how difficult it can be to make a meal safe for those with swallowing difficulties and other issues presented to carers. Saffron Scott, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Bournemouth University added, “Practical sessions like this help bring theory alive; getting a sense of what it might feel like to live with dysphagia is a powerful learning tool which aids empathy and embeds deeper levels of learning.” Wiltshire Farm Foods are planning on running the roadshow again during the 2019-2020 student year. The service is free for all students who wish to participate.
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