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Volume 11 Issue 4 - April 2008
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |
| Editorial | |
| QOF points reallocated in GMS contract 2008–2009 update | |
| News | |
| NICE issues updated advice on care for healthy pregnant women | |
| Combined efforts are needed to tackle increased depression rates | |
| Personal View | |
| Infliximab is approved by NICE for adult psoriasis | |
| Dr Alison Roberts welcomes the guidance from NICE and a new treatment for patients with the severe form of the disease | |
| New Guideline | |
| New IBS guideline highlights importance of self-help by patients | |
| Psychological interventions, antidepressants, and positive diagnosis represent a novel approach to management and care of irritable bowel syndrome, says Dr James Dalrymple | |
| New Guideline | |
| New BSACI guideline aids GPs to recognise subtypes of rhinitis | |
| Dr Imran Rafi and Dr Shuaib Nasser discuss the role of primary care in the identification and management of allergic, non-allergic, and infective rhinitis | |
| New Guideline | |
| Extended treatment is needed to prevent VTE in post-surgical patients | |
| Professor Samuel Machin discusses the implications for primary care of NICE recommendations on long-term prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism after hip surgery | |
| CPD | |
| How to search the web for evidence-based information | |
| Nia Roberts, an outreach librarian in the medical sciences division at Oxford University, passes on her tips on how you can optimise your searches on the internet | |
| Hot Topic | |
| Pilot scheme will offer support for doctors with health problems | |
| Dr Gerard Panting outlines the difficulties facing clinicians when they are unwell: the Practitioner Health Programme offers advice and access to specialist assessment services | |
| Focus on CME | |
| Guidelines in Practice: CME questions: 79 | |
| Write the answers in the spaces provided, then cut out the pages and put them in your personal development plan | |
| Out of Hours | |
| There is more to obesity than eating too much | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol |
Guidelines in Practice, April 2008, Volume 11 (4)
© 2008 MGP
Ltd
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