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Volume 15 Issue 2 - February 2012
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| NHS commissioning outcomes framework will hold CCGs to account | |
| News | |
| New guides aim to improve mental health commissioning | |
| Consultation on potential new COF indicators launched by NICE | |
| Personal View | |
| Hyperglycaemia should be managed in patients with ACS | |
| Dr Alan Begg highlights points for primary care relating to the NICE guideline on managing hyperglycaemia in acute coronary syndromes | |
| New Guideline | |
| Colorectal cancer management requires a multidisciplinary team | |
| Professor Graeme Poston highlights the NICE guideline recommendations on the investigation, disease staging, treatment options, and follow up of colorectal cancer | |
| New Guideline | |
| A clear pathway will aid diagnosis of autism in children | |
| Professor Gillian Baird discusses NICE recommendations on improving recognition of autism spectrum disorders and set up of a local multidisciplinary autism specialist team | |
| NICE Quality Standards | |
| GPs need to be alert to risk of depression in all consultations | |
| Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham explains how the quality standard for depression reinforces the critical role of primary care in the management of adults with this condition | |
| Out of Hours | |
| The NHS is a people service: put humanity back into it | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol | |

