Contents – May 2006

News

GPs’ success with QOF hypertension targets will cut cardiovascular events

Guidelines in Practice Awards call for entries

Personal View

NICE guidance will help GPs encourage smokers to quit

Dr Peter Saul welcomes the new NICE guidance on brief interventions and referral for smoking
cessation

New Guidelines: Development

Early recognition and treatment of dementia will benefit patients

Dr Peter Connelly explains how the updated SIGN guideline will help GPs to diagnose
dementia and keep patients and carers informed about the disease

GP Contract: QOF2

Diabetes indicators should help reduce complications

The revised diabetes indicators should help reduce morbidity and mortality in both type 1 and type 2 disease, says Dr Matthew Lockyer

GP Contract: QOF2

QOF2 emphasises the need to act on findings from patient surveys

Patient-led healthcare is more prominent in the organisational domain of QOF2.
Dr Nigel Watson discusses the updated patient experience indicators

Meetings & Conferences

Diary of events

Please let us know of your forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary

Guidelines in Practice Awards

Full details on how to enter this year’s Awards

Focus on CME

Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 56

Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan

QOF2 Indicators

QOF2 clinical indicators: summary tables

Out of Hours

Where does all the money really go?

Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol