{"id":227,"date":"2017-04-10T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssn-dev.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:27:13","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/professionals\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The patient\u2019s treatment is decided by a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) of specialist clinicians. This process is supported by guidelines outlining a recommended patient treatment pathway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guidelines help promote equitable provision of high quality care. It is important to note that they are a support tool for clinicians. Guidelines are not instructions and cannot replace the role of the clinician in treatment decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NHS Scotland has&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerreferral.scot.nhs.uk\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referral guidelines for suspected cancer<\/a>.&nbsp; Please select \u2018Brain and Central Nervous System Cancers\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanon.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2022\/04\/Brain_and_Central_Nervous_System_Tumours_National_Follow_up_Guidelines_v1_0_July_2015_to_July_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scottish follow-up guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dft.gov.uk\/dvla\/medical\/aag.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DVLA driving guidelines are available from the DVLA \u2018at a glance\u2019 section of their website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">The patient\u2019s treatment is decided by a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) of specialist clinicians. This process is supported by guidelines outlining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":4791,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/5080"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/sanon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}