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Volume 14 Issue 4 - April 2011

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - January 2007 cover
  Editorial
  How will you improve quality and make cost savings?
  News
  Four new quality standards launched by NICE
  Advice on diagnosis of latent tuberculosis updated by NICE
  Updated Guideline
  GPs have a role throughout the GAD stepped-care model
  Professor John Cape and Dr Marta Buszewicz outline the updated NICE recommendations on the identification, assessment, and treatment of generalised anxiety disorder
  Updated Guideline
  All patients admitted to hospital should be assessed for VTE risk
  Dr Henry Watson discusses how the SIGN recommendations will help to improve identification of patients with venous thromboembolism and provision of prophylactic treatment
  NHS Evidence
  The NHS Evidence QIPP collection showcases best practice examples
  Dr Gillian Leng explains how submissions to the QIPP collection are assessed for inclusion and highlights other NHS Evidence resources for use in improving patient care
  Commissioning
  Programme budgeting may help to control drug expenditure
  Andrew Riley discusses the influential factors in using a programme budgeting and marginal analysis model to manage growth in prescribing costs
  Out of Hours
  Diabetes care in hospitals needs improving
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol