Aims: This guideline offers best practice advice on the care of people with bipolar disorder.
Recommendations: The document considers the identification, treatment and management of bipolar disorder in children, adolescents and adults in primary and secondary care, including those covered by prison medical services.
Intended audience: Healthcare professionals, patients and their carers/families.
Methodology and development: See Section 5.1 of this guidance relating to the Full NICE Guidance, which contains details of the methods and evidence used to develop the guideline.
Implications for practice: See Section 3 'Implementation in the NHS' which addresses the implementation of DH Developmental Standard D2 and Core Standard C5. Tools to help organisations to implement the guidance are given on the NICE website at http://www.nice.org.uk/CG038.
Publication history information: Published July 2006. A provisional review date set for this guideline is July 2010. NICE Clinical Guideline 38.
Access: Available to the general public. Portable Document File / PDF requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader.
