Contents – October 2004

News: Guidelines in Practice Awards 2004

Guidelines in Practice Award winner sets gold standard for epilepsy care

News

RCP publishes concise stroke guidelines for primary care

Editorial

The Guidelines in Practice annual Awards 2004

The judges assess the standard of this year’s entries and give advice on entering projects for next year’s Awards

New Guidelines: Review

NICE hypertension guidance is tailored to primary care

New evidence-based recommendations from NICE will help GPs treat essential hypertension appropriately, says Dr Alan Begg

New Guidelines: Review

BSG updates guidance on ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

Although inflammatory bowel disease is mainly managed in secondary care, the revised BSG guideline contains much useful information for GPs, says Dr Mark Cottrill

Guidelines in Practice Award: Winning entry

Forth Valley guideline transforms standards of epilepsy care

This year’s Guidelines in Practice Award winning team explain how epilepsy patients have benefited from a collaboration between primary and secondary care and the voluntary sector

GP Contract

Creating an enhanced service will improve care in depression

GPs are well placed to manage depression and could provide a high standard of care by setting up an enhanced service under the new contract, says Dr Jill Murie

Medico-legal Issues in Practice

How does a living will affect the care you give your patient?

Advance directives can place doctors at odds with their patient’s wishes but new legislation
should help to clarify the issues, as Dr Gerard Panting explains

Focus on CME

Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 37

Download the pages, write the answers in the spaces provided, then put them in your personal development plan

Out of Hours

Back on the bicycle again

Dr Phil Hammond, GP and broadcaster