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Volume 14 Issue 11 - November 2011

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - October 2011 cover
  Editorial
  How is your practice performing in the CHD category of the QOF?
  News
  NICE recommendations for QOF 2012/13 have been agreed
  NICE publishes guideline on hyperglycaemia in ACS
  New Guideline
  Service standards for IBD supported by updated BSG guideline
  Drs Sandeep Shivananda Siddhi and Craig Mowat discuss the British Society of Gastroenterology recommendations on the management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
  Guideline Revisited
  Patient and carer preference is key when prescribing emollients
  Dr Rachel Hilton explains how patient and carer education can help promote effective and safe use of emollients and topical steroids in children with atopic eczema
  New Guideline
  Strategy for respiratory conditions provides aspirational targets
  Dr Steve Holmes and Jane Scullion discuss how the outcomes strategy for COPD and asthma emphasises the need for integrated care and cross-boundary working
  Guideline Revisited
  Effective control of pain in cancer requires detailed assessment
  Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to provide analgesia for both background and breakthrough pain in patients with cancer, says Ms Linda Kerr
  GMS Contract
  CHD indicators provide more detail on treatment of MI
  Dr Alan Begg discusses the revised quality and outcomes framework indicators for coronary heart disease and how national guidance relates to these targets
  Out of Hours
  Are you looking forward to 'integrition'?
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol