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Volume 13 Issue 8 - August 2010
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| Latest JUPITER analysis should be treated with caution | |
| News | |
| NICE publishes guideline to aid the diagnosis of delirium | |
| DH publishes vision for the future of the NHS in Equity and excellence | |
| New Guideline | |
| NICE outlines how to treat alcohol-related physical conditions | |
| Dr Stephen Stewart and Dr Sharon Swain explain how the NICE guideline on the management of alcohol-related physical complications aims to raise standards of care | |
| Updated Guideline | |
| Managing COPD: optimising current control and reducing future risk | |
| Dr Kevin Gruffydd-Jones outlines the revised NICE COPD guideline recommendations on post-bronchodilator spirometry, assessment of disease severity, and inhaled therapy | |
| New Guideline | |
| Patients with unstable angina and NSTEMI should be risk stratified | |
| Dr Mark de Belder discusses the NICE recommendations on the roles of antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy in the management of acute coronary syndromes | |
| Guideline Implementation | |
| NICE implementation consultants offer regional support | |
| Annie Coppel explains how your local NICE representative can help guideline implementation by providing advice and resources, updating professionals, and holding workshops | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Can GP consortia sort out variation in healthcare? | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol | |

