Contents – February 2005

News

Osteoporosis guidance will lower risk of refracture

In Reply

Teamwork is important in management of dysphagia

Personal View

Osteoporosis guidance will aid secondary prevention

New NICE guidance will help GPs manage postmenopausal women at risk of further fractures, says Dr Tom Fryatt

New Guidelines: Development

NICE anxiety guideline highlights importance of psychological therapy

Cognitive behavioural therapy has a pivotal role in the management of anxiety. Primary care should consider ways to deliver this intervention, says Dr Alan Cohen

New Guidelines: Development

NICE recommends a stepped care approach to managing depression

Effective recognition in primary care is the first stage in a structured approach to depression management, as Stephen Pilling and Dr Paul Harvey explain

New GP Contract

Computerised decision support system is key to anticoagulation service

Patients benefit from anticoagulation monitoring in primary care but optimum management depends on the right decision-making support, says Dr Alan Begg

Focus on CME

Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 41

Download the PDF, fill in the answers and keep the pages in your personal development plan

Test Your Guidelines Knowledge

Win a 2-night break for two at The Scotsman, Edinburgh

How well do you know the NICE guideline on management of depression in primary and secondary care?

Guidelines in Practice Awards 2005

Entry form

Full details on how to enter this year's Awards

Guidelines in Practice Conference 2005

Implementing national guidelines and the nGMS contract: asthma, COPD and hypertension

Programme and information on how to book for our annual conference

Out of Hours

Rooting out incompetence – time for a new approach?

Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol