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Volume 10 Issue 4 - April 2007

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - April 2007 cover
  Editorial
  Maintaining cost-effectiveness is a key issue for primary care
  News
  Criteria published to help ensure services are 'young people friendly'
  Personal View
  Positive action is required to stem the rise in obesity
  Dr David Haslam argues that crucial training and resources are needed, not more evidence as provided by the NICE obesity guidance
   
  New Guideline
  Estimation of risk is required to help prevent cardiovascular events
  SIGN guideline on cardiovascular disease outlines key factors to help with timely recognition and intervention by the primary care team, explains Dr James Grant
   
  New Guideline
  Dementia guideline will assist GPs with diagnosis and care
  Dr Stephen Iliffe and Professor Jill Manthorpe discuss how the NICE dementia guidance will help with early recognition and assessment and thereby benefit patients and carers
   
  New Guideline
  Many modalities of therapy are available for actinic keratoses
  Dr David de Berker highlights the key recommendations from the guideline on management and treatment of AK, published by the British Association of Dermatologists
   
  Guidelines in Practice Awards
  Familial cancer risk assessment is focus of primary care initiative
  Melanie Ripley, head of the winning team in the cancer category of the Guidelines in Practice Awards 2006, discusses the Oldham Cancer Family History Service
   
  Medico-legal Issues in Practice
  Medical experts in the dock: expectations of and advice for witnesses
  Key required attributes and the lack of expert evidence are identified by the recent proposals from the Chief Medical Officer and Department of Health, says Dr Gerard Panting
   
  Focus on CME
  Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 67
  Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan
   
  Notes for Authors
  Writing for Guidelines in Practice: instructions for authors
   
  QOF2 Indicators
  QOF2 clinical indicators: summary tables
   
  Conferences & Meetings
  Diary of events
  Please let us know of your forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary
   
  Out of Hours
  Would you take your child for the cervical cancer jab
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol