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Guidance for staff involved in planning to discharge patients at risk of or experiencing homelessness, or who have no recourse to public funds.
Guidance for healthcare professionals on using single-use medical devices.
Guidance for healthcare professionals on the use and management of blood pressure management devices.
How to comply with the regulatory requirements for manufacturing custom-made medical devices.
Updated guidance on occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) from the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA).
Explains how to report a suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreak using the HNORS website, for infection control staff in NHS hospitals.
Information about payments to GPs, dentists and ophthalmic performers who are suspended from the NHS performers list.
Apply for and maintain registrations for the brokering of human medicines.
The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
Checklists providing a practical guide to using medical devices.
Directions on safety and security to providers of high security psychiatric services.
Advice for healthcare professionals on how to use blood glucose meters safely and effectively.
These directions required NHS England to establish a division to be known as the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) on 1 July 2022. These directions were revoked on 1 October 2023, and accordingly the HSIB no long…
Guidance on sources of electromagnetic interference and mitigating the risks.
This guidance demonstrates stakeholders, including the government, working together to address supply issues.
What is considered off-label use of a medical device and examples of it.
A series of indicators to inform safer prescribing practice to help pharmacists, clinicians and patients review prescribed medication and prevent harm.
Guidance on the cardiovascular safety of Cox-2 inhibitors and NSAIDs and further reading.
This is guidance on the safe use of ultrasound gel to reduce risk of transmission of infection during ultrasound and related procedures.
Typical effective doses, equivalent periods of natural background radiation and lifetime fatal cancer risks from diagnostic medical exposures.
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