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Volume 15 Issue 4 - April 2012

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - April 2012 cover
  Editorial
  Are you up to date with the changes to QOF 2012/13?
  News
  NICE to develop an additional 123 quality standards
  Quality standards for lung cancer and hip fracture published
  Updated Guideline
  NICE updates its recommendations on treatment of epilepsy
  Dr Greg Rogers outlines how the NICE guideline on epilepsy will help clinicians to choose the most appropriate drug based on seizure type and syndrome
  NICE Quality Standards
  Treatment for breast cancer should not be influenced by age
  Patients with breast cancer should be included in decisions on the management of their disease as outlined in the NICE quality standard, says Dr Adrian Harnett
  GMS Contract
  Two new clinical domains have been included in the QOF
  Professor Tim Stokes discusses the introduction of new clinical indicators in the QOF 2012/13 and also highlights those that have been replaced or refined
  GMS Contract
  Osteoporosis is a new domain in the GMS contract for 2012/13
  Dr Pam Brown, Dr Wendy Carr, and Paul Mitchell discuss the introduction of an osteoporosis web resource to help primary care with the implementation of the new QOF domain
  Out of Hours
  GPs need to think about environmental health too
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol