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Editorial |
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Practice-based commissioners and PCTs must work together
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Guidelines in Practice Awards 2007 |
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Is your asthma or CVD-related project a potential winner?
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News |
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New NICE guideline will help to assess children with fever
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New NICE guideline on secondary prevention of MI is patient-centred
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Guideline Revisited |
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Brief and intensive interventions do help patients to quit smoking
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Dr Matt Kearney discusses how GPs can implement the NICE smoking cessation guidance to increase referral rates of smokers to specialist clinics and improve quit rates |
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New Guideline |
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SIGN recommendations on angina are relevant to all UK practices
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New evidence-based guidance on the management of stable angina provides advice on investigations, models of care, relief of symptoms, and psychological issues, says Dr Alan Begg |
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New Guideline |
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Women will benefit from osteoporosis guideline recommendations
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Dr Pam Brown discusses how the consensus guideline will assist primary care teams with the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women |
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GMS Contract: QOF2 |
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Asthma indicators recognise importance of annual patient reviews
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Implementation of the QOF indicators encourages more accurate asthma diagnosis and may reduce emergency hospital admissions, comments Dr Kevin Gruffydd-Jones |
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Practice-based Commissioning |
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Preparing an indicative PBC budget: can you justify what you spend?
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Dr David Jenner outlines the importance to general practice of budgeting for practice-based commissioning and includes ten important criteria that the budget should observe |
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Medico-legal Issues in Practice |
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Three main areas of change to the 1983 Mental Health Act
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The new Mental Health Bill redefines mental disorder, changes the test for long-term admissions, and introduces supervision in the community, says Dr Gerard Panting |
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Focus on CME |
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Guidelines in Practice: CME questions: 69
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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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Notes for Authors |
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Writing for Guidelines in Practice: instructions for authors
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QOF2 Indicators |
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QOF2 clinical indicators: summary tables
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Conferences & Meetings |
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Diary of events
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Please let us know of your forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary |
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Out of Hours |
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Can doctors really be taught to communicate?
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Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol |
