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Editorial |
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Guidelines in Practice has been significantly updated
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News |
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New NICE guideline aims to tackle obesity in England and Wales
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Commissioning guide for stroke services published by DH
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Personal View |
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Most cases of bronchiolitis can be managed at home
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The SIGN guideline on bronchiolitis in infants will help GPs identify symptoms and know when to refer, explains Dr Alan Woodley |
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New Guidelines: Development |
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New NICE guideline highlights challenges of urinary incontinence
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Drs Adrian Wagg and Malin Roesner explain how the guidance on female UI aims to educate GPs on its management and treatment and dispel the social taboo |
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Guidelines in Practice Award: Runner up |
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Personalised diabetes care plans help patients reach targets
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Dr Peter Standing’s team, joint runner up in the Guidelines in Practice Award 2006, shows how implementing personalised care plans leads to improved results for its diabetes patients |
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Guidelines: Implementation |
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Primary care smoking cessation services improve quit rates
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Joanna Robinson and her team at Walsall tPCT show that locally enhanced services based on national smoking cessation guidance can benefit people who are trying to give up smoking |
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New Guidelines: Review |
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GPs need to be able to recognise symptoms of coeliac disease
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A new guideline from the PCSG should help the primary care team to identify, treat, and manage coeliac disease more effectively, as highlighted by Dr Sohail Butt |
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GP Contract: QOF2 |
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Best practice guidance for the dementia indicators in QOF2
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Dr Alan Cohen and his colleagues at the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) discuss the implications of the dementia clinical indicators in primary care |
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Focus on CME |
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Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 64
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Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan |
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QOF2 Indicators |
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QOF2 clinical indicators: summary tables
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NICE Referral Guide |
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NICE referral summaries
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Conferences & Meetings |
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Diary of events
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Please let us know of you forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary |
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Notes for Authors |
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Writing for Guidelines in Practice: instructions for authors
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Out of Hours |
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Is your choice of neckwear linked to MRSA?
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Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol |
