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Volume 10 Issue 1 - January 2007
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| Guidelines in Practice has been significantly updated | |
| News | |
| New NICE guideline aims to tackle obesity in England and Wales | |
| Commissioning guide for stroke services published by DH | |
| Personal View | |
| Most cases of bronchiolitis can be managed at home | |
| The SIGN guideline on bronchiolitis in infants will help GPs identify symptoms and know when to refer, explains Dr Alan Woodley | |
| New Guidelines: Development | |
| New NICE guideline highlights challenges of urinary incontinence | |
| Drs Adrian Wagg and Malin Roesner explain how the guidance on female UI aims to educate GPs on its management and treatment and dispel the social taboo | |
| Guidelines in Practice Award: Runner up | |
| Personalised diabetes care plans help patients reach targets | |
| Dr Peter Standing’s team, joint runner up in the Guidelines in Practice Award 2006, shows how implementing personalised care plans leads to improved results for its diabetes patients | |
| Guidelines: Implementation | |
| Primary care smoking cessation services improve quit rates | |
| Joanna Robinson and her team at Walsall tPCT show that locally enhanced services based on national smoking cessation guidance can benefit people who are trying to give up smoking | |
| New Guidelines: Review | |
| GPs need to be able to recognise symptoms of coeliac disease | |
| A new guideline from the PCSG should help the primary care team to identify, treat, and manage coeliac disease more effectively, as highlighted by Dr Sohail Butt | |
| GP Contract: QOF2 | |
| Best practice guidance for the dementia indicators in QOF2 | |
| Dr Alan Cohen and his colleagues at the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) discuss the implications of the dementia clinical indicators in primary care | |
| Focus on CME | |
| Guidelines in Practice CME questions: 64 | |
| 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 | |
| NICE Referral Guide | |
| NICE referral summaries | |
| Conferences & Meetings | |
| Diary of events | |
| Please let us know of you forthcoming meetings and workshops for inclusion in our events diary | |
| Notes for Authors | |
| Writing for Guidelines in Practice: instructions for authors | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Is your choice of neckwear linked to MRSA? | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and GP returner in Bristol |

