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Volume 14 Issue 2 - February 2011
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| Carers of patients with dementia must receive a needs assessment | |
| News | |
| NICE publishes guidance on prevention of skin cancer | |
| NICE releases guideline on generalised anxiety disorder | |
| New Guideline | |
| Coordinated care will improve outcomes in patients with psoriasis | |
| Dr Iain Henderson discusses the SIGN recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and when individuals should be referred | |
| Guideline Revisited | |
| Is it a brain tumour? Red flags will help GPs with referral decisions | |
| Dr David Kernick discusses signs and methodology that can be used to determine whether headache is a manifestation of an underlying brain tumour | |
| NICE Quality Standards | |
| Early diagnosis will help GPs to attain the quality standard for dementia | |
| Dr David Anderson and Dr Nadarajah Jehaanandan outline the NICE quality statements for dementia and the measures that are needed to achieve them | |
| Commissioning | |
| The outcome strategic map can support the commissioning process | |
| Gina Perigo and Steve Callaghan outline the concept of the outcome strategic map and how it has been used within Liverpool PCT in the delivery of health outcomes | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Drug development is no longer affordable in the UK | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol |

