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Volume 16 Issue 10 - October 2013
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |
| Editorial | |
| Patient education and support offers many benefits | |
| News | |
| NICE announces four new quality standards | |
| SIGN releases new guidance on the treatment of breast cancer | |
| Hot Topic | |
| Personal health budgets reduce the use of hospital care | |
| Jo Fitzgerald, Zoe Porter, and Martin Cattermole explain how personal health budgets will offer people more choices and tailored solutions to meet their needs | |
| Guideline Revisited | |
| Patient education and treatment options are key in actinic keratosis | |
| Drs Neil Shroff and Stephen Kownacki explore the clinical approaches to actinic keratosis and show how most patients can be treated and managed in primary care | |
| Personal View | |
| Prompt treatment is crucial in management of acute STEMI | |
| Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for STEMI improves outcomes if it can be delivered in time, says Dr Alan Begg | |
| Good Practice Initiative | |
| Patient self-referral for physiotherapy improves outcomes | |
| Ruth ten Hove describes how self-referral for musculoskeletal physiotherapy can result in cost savings, shorter waiting times, and benefits for patients and GPs | |
| New Guideline | |
| Improved care and support is needed with ulcerative colitis | |
| Sarah Cripps explains how patient information and support are key priorities for implementation in ulcerative colitis and will aid induction of remission | |
| Out of Hours | |
| What would you do to keep your parents out of hospital? |
