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Volume 10 Issue 12 - December 2007
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| NICE offers practical advice to aid guideline implementation | |
| News | |
| The Government publishes its new strategy on stroke | |
| National guidance on planning for an influenza pandemic is issued | |
| New Guideline | |
| Guideline provides advice on phasing out CFC-containing inhalers | |
| Planned implementation procedures for replacement of devices for patients with asthma will enable GPs to spread the workload and maintain care, says Mr Andrew Martin | |
| New Guideline | |
| Doctors must respond to signs of chronic fatigue syndrome | |
| New clinical guideline from NICE will help GPs establish sensible strategies for diagnosis and management of this controversial condition, comments Dr William Hamilton | |
| GMS Contract: QOF2 | |
| Targets in the QOF2 CHD indicators are the audit standard | |
| Dr Sarah Jarvis explains why the blood pressure and total cholesterol levels included in the quality and outcomes framework should be achievable for all patients | |
| Guideline Implementation | |
| What is the impact of the NICE bipolar disorder guideline 1 year on? | |
| Dr Peter Young, Dr Ewa Wisniewska Young, and Dr Roger Paxton say further implementation needs better communication and cooperation between organisations | |
| Guidelines in Practice Cardiovascular Disease Award | |
| Patients benefit from a simple CVD risk recording project | |
| Dr Zaid Albrefkany’s winning team in the 2007 Guidelines in Practice Cardiovascular Disease Award set up an audit of CVD risk recording, which led to targeted treatment of high-risk patients | |
| Notes for Authors | |
| Writing for Guidelines in Practice: instructions for authors | |
| Focus on CME | |
| Guidelines in Practice: CME questions: 75 | |
| Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan | |
| Immunisation | |
| Full routine childhood immunisation schedule | |
| Conferences & Meetings | |
| Diary of events | |
| Please let us know of your forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Private healthcare providers have lessons for the NHS | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol |

