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Volume 15 Issue 5 - May 2012

  Colour Key:
  NICE or Department of Health guideline
  SIGN guideline
  Independent professional body guideline
  Working party guideline
  Other articles
Guidelines in Practice - May 2012 cover
  Editorial
  GPs are well placed to help prevent self-harm
  News
  Guidance issued on direct referral to diagnostic tests for cancer
  Evidence Updates on depression and delirium released by NHS Evidence
  New Guideline
  Patients who self-harm should be encouraged to ask for help
  Dr Clare Taylor, Professor Navneet Kapur, and Professor Tim Kendall discuss the importance of communication in the NICE guideline on long-term management of self-harm
  NICE Quality Standards
  High-quality care should be available at all times at end of life
  Drs Bee Wee and Stephen Barclay explain how the NICE quality standard on end-of-life care requires sensitive communication and effective care planning
  GMS Contract
  Peripheral arterial disease increases risk of a cardiovascular event
  Dr Alan Begg discusses why the inclusion of peripheral arterial disease in the QOF indicators for 2012/13 is so important and how primary care should achieve them
  NICE accreditation
  NICE accreditation: raising the standard of guidance production
  Professor David Haslam explains the role of the NICE Accreditation Programme in developing quality standards and discusses how participation is a positive experience
  Out of Hours
  Doctors should receive regular training in prescribing
  Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol