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Volume 14 Issue 6 - June 2011
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |
| Editorial | |
| Mental health disorders and CV risk are linked | |
| News | |
| NICE publishes guideline on mental health disorders | |
| BTS and SIGN publish annual update of asthma guideline | |
| Hot Topic | |
| Effective recall systems are required for men with prostate cancer | |
| Dr Catherine Briggs discusses how management of prostate cancer and the role of primary care may need to evolve in line with the changing NHS climate | |
| Updated Guideline | |
| FRAX® tool improves fracture prediction for osteoporosis | |
| Professors Juliet Compston and Eugene McCloskey explain how the updated NOGG guideline covers all approved drug interventions and possible treatment complications | |
| GMS Contract | |
| Primary prevention of CVD is given greater prominence in QOF | |
| Dr Alan Begg explains how the QOF indicators for 2011/2012 have been updated to improve identification of cardiovascular risk in people with serious mental illness | |
| Hot Topic | |
| GPs should be aware of the implications of bariatric surgery | |
| Andrew Wardle, Mr Haritharan Nageswaran, and Mr David Hewin discuss the viability, benefits, and impact of choosing surgery as a treatment option for obesity | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Optimists are needed to handle the changing NHS | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol |
Guidelines in Practice, June
2011, Volume 14 (6)
© 2011 MGP
Ltd
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