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Volume 15 Issue 2 - February 2012

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - January 2007 cover
  Editorial
  NHS commissioning outcomes framework will hold CCGs to account
  News
  New guides aim to improve mental health commissioning
  Consultation on potential new COF indicators launched by NICE
  Personal View
  Hyperglycaemia should be managed in patients with ACS
  Dr Alan Begg highlights points for primary care relating to the NICE guideline on managing hyperglycaemia in acute coronary syndromes
  New Guideline
  Colorectal cancer management requires a multidisciplinary team
  Professor Graeme Poston highlights the NICE guideline recommendations on the investigation, disease staging, treatment options, and follow up of colorectal cancer
  New Guideline
  A clear pathway will aid diagnosis of autism in children
  Professor Gillian Baird discusses NICE recommendations on improving recognition of autism spectrum disorders and set up of a local multidisciplinary autism specialist team
  NICE Quality Standards
  GPs need to be alert to risk of depression in all consultations
  Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham explains how the quality standard for depression reinforces the critical role of primary care in the management of adults with this condition
  Out of Hours
  The NHS is a people service: put humanity back into it
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol