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Volume 11 Issue 8 - August 2008
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |
| Editorial | |
| NICE to play central role in Darzi reforms | |
| Editorial | |
| Latest Hib booster is not on immunisation schedule | |
| News | |
| NICE guideline recommends new antibiotic prescribing strategies | |
| New guidelines for stroke and TIA focus on rapid assessment and care | |
| Practice-based Commissioning | |
| A group approach to PBC can improve care for targeted diseases | |
| Dr Richard More demonstrates how Somerset GP practices combined to provide better local facilities for treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
| New Guideline | |
| New guideline from NICE highlights the benefits of statins | |
| Dr Rubin Minhas outlines key features from the guideline for modification of blood lipids, and the vital role of primary care in prevention of cardiovascular disease | |
| Revised Guideline | |
| BTS/SIGN has issued revised guidance on asthma management | |
| Updated advice on assessment, greater emphasis on self-management plans, and new recommendations on treating ‘difficult’ asthma will improve care, says Dr Hilary Pinnock | |
| Personal View | |
| NICE approves rimonabant for overweight and obesity | |
| Dr David Haslam says the introduction of rimonabant for adults will help to achieve weight loss and improve cardiometabolic risk | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Health is not a commodity so why learn how to market it? | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol |
Guidelines in Practice, August 2008, Volume 11 (8)
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