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December 1999

News

NICE launches clinical guidelines programme

GP guidelines aim to raise awareness of coeliac disease

Editorial

Implementing systematic change across general practice

Rosalind Eve, Co-director, Centre for Innovation in Primary Care, Sheffield

Personal View

LMC sets criteria to help GPs select guidelines

Dr Harry Yoxall explains why Somerset LMC is urging GPs to reject unworkable guidelines

Letters

Benefits of providing in-house sigmoidoscopy

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Guideline Development

Guidelines standardise physiotherapy for stress incontinence

Jill Gregson describes the development of guidelines designed to eliminate variations in physiotherapy for women with stress urinary incontinenceGuideline Implementation

Locality Initiative

'NICE' work if you can implement it

When guidance starts arriving from NICE, PCGs will need to plan carefully how best to implement it locally, explain Dr Berry Beaumont and Nick Pahl

Audit

Audit improves GP management of raised cholesterol

Norma Bell and Dr Mike Jones describe an audit that clarified the care and management of patients with raised cholesterol for many practices in Stockport

Questions & Answers

Your problems solved

Our editorial board answer your questions on nurses following practice protocols and the role of guidelines in revalidation

Tips on Guideline Use

When to move on to a new guideline

Dr Mark Charny discusses when you should consider stopping work on a guideline, in the last article in this series

Out of Hours

Guidelines on touching patients

Dr Phil Hammond, GP, lecturer and presenter of BBC2's Trust Me, I'm a Doctor