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Volume 13 Issue 1 - January 2010
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| NICE develops 'How to' guide to support commissioners | |
| News | |
| Guideline on the management of Parkinson’s disease is published | |
| The DH asks health and care professionals to engage with Local Involvement Networks | |
| Personal View | |
| Prasugrel recommended for acute coronary syndrome | |
| Dr Alan Begg discusses national guidance and trial data on the use of antiplatelet therapies for treating acute coronary syndrome | |
| Guideline Revisited | |
| All women requiring contraception should be offered LARCs | |
| Dr Anne Connolly explains how the number of unplanned pregnancies can be reduced by improving access to, and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception | |
| New Guideline | |
| Depression and chronic physical health problems: advice updated by NICE | |
| Professor Christopher Dowrick highlights the main recommendations from NICE Clinical Guideline 91 and discusses the stepped-care model on interventions | |
| New Guideline | |
| Improved immunisation services will benefit disadvantaged children | |
| Drs Helen Bedford and David Elliman explain how the NICE public health guidance on immunisation should lead to improved services and increased uptake of vaccines | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Art is for appreciation not for practising medicine | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol |

