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- Cosmetic surgery isn't necessary if you're healthy
Dr Phil Hammond
Guidelines in Practice articles
- Commissioners need to be brave and speak their minds
- Will a new Government change the NHS again?
- Movember UK advice needs to be in line with the NHS
- Primary care must remain the cornerstone of the NHS
- How do you choose the best hip replacement?
- Can the Olympics create a public health legacy?
- Are we too dependent on over-the-counter drugs?
- Who thinks the reforms will make the NHS safer?
- Doctors should receive regular training in prescribing
- GPs need to think about environmental health too
- Does the Health Bill imply privatisation for the NHS?
- The NHS is a people service: put humanity back into it
- Cosmetic surgery isn't necessary if you're healthy
- Depression and failure are a part of life
- Are you looking forward to 'integrition'?
- Be proud to be part of the NHS and what it does
- Advise patients with STIs to be honest with their partners
- Is the Scottish NHS the best in the UK?
- NHS whistleblowers should be protected
- Optimists are needed to handle the changing NHS
- Everyone wants to work in an integrated health service
- Diabetes care in hospitals needs improving
- Bring the generalists back to medicine
- Drug development is no longer affordable in the UK
- Pathfinder consortia need to be transparent in all aspects
- The Shut Up, Move On guide to mental health
- NICE hands the commissioning baton over to GP consortia
- Do GP commissioners have the nerve to invest in the best?
- GP commissioners need to focus on preventive strategies
- Can GP consortia sort out variation in healthcare?
- Good communication is a must for medical teams
- A guideline for surviving the Con-Dems coalition
- Play games to get your doctor's attention
- Being a doctor means having difficult conversations
- Should EU states have equal access to drug information?
- ABPI Code of Practice: medical devices not included
- Art is for appreciation not for practising medicine
- NICE needs to have both style and substance
- Doctors and pharmacists need to work in partnership
- Take the time to enjoy life?s pleasures but don't overdo it
- Patients and GPs need to fight their steroid phobia
- Herpes Viruses Association destigmatises cold sores
- Judgement and evidence base must go hand in hand
- Remember the wisdom of old-school doctors
- Does art have a role to play in healthcare?
- Strong leadership is needed to enforce good patient care
- When did you last witness a cardiac arrest?
- Is assisted death preferable to palliative care?
- Happiness is contagious; let?s all get infected
- The NHS is going green but is it cost effective?
- A PBC consortium may help you keep financial control
- How do you differentiate good science from bad?
- When does high mortality trigger alarm bells?
- Health is not a commodity so why learn how to market it?
- Tomorrow?s doctors need to be masters of many roles
- If practice makes perfect, should doctors be robots?
- Online rating will allow for increased patient feedback
- There is more to obesity than eating too much
- Legislation reinforces need for openness in drug trials
- What exactly is world class commissioning?
- It only takes 13 steps to wash your hands properly
- Private healthcare providers have lessons for the NHS
- Evidence-based medicine is stifling clinical freedom
- NHS reconfiguration must be based on patient benefits
- Whatever happens, do not Americanise the NHS
- Whatever happens, do not Americanise the NHS
- Why won?t GPs help their patients to stop smoking?
- What should Gordon Brown do with the NHS?
- Can doctors really be taught to communicate?
- If you have the power, are you using it responsibly?
- Would you take your child for the cervical cancer jab?
- We would appreciate it if you didn't get ill today
- Breast-feeding: more than what comes naturally
- Is your choice of neckwear linked to MRSA?
- It's all in the interview technique
- The things you hear on the after dinner circuit
- Is your glass half empty or half full?
- There's only one NHS in the UK – isn't there?
- The internet is a truly marvellous thing
- Can star ratings ever be accurate or meaningful?
- Patients are people not commodities
- Where does all the money really go?
- Where does all the money really go?
- The transatlantic saviours of Weston-super-Mare
- Is reassurance better than medication?
- The healing power of haircuts
- Can you spell what you prescribe?
- You can?t always get what you want
- Recognition is the real reward
- Who should be holding the purse strings?
- Back to basics ... again
- Guidelines for speaking at medical student balls
- Should we go Dutch?
- What can we learn from drug companies?
- Have we been bought?
- Is the NHS worth it?
- Bring on the exams
- Rooting out incompetence – time for a new approach?
- Keeping our patients – and the software – satisfied
- Nursery crimes
- Sharing the burden of out-of-hours care
- Facing up to extinction
- Back on the bicycle again
- The bitter end
- The gasman cometh
- Keeping Dr Ten-thumbs away from patients
- Taking the colonoscopy challenge
- All things not being equal
- Reaching for the stars
- Strange bedfellows
- The patient's choice
- How to make politics and ethics funny
- Small is beautiful
- Will the new NHS IT programme ever work?
- Gene genie
- Is online prescribing the way forward?
- Tin hats on everyone – we?re going over the top
- Don't panic: how to handle health scares with aplomb
- War and peace
- Way off target
- Doctors are from Mars, nurses are from Venus
- All you need is love
- Guidelines for surviving general practice
- ... And the winner is ...
- Doctors in distress
- Guidelines on lacking knowledge
- Guidelines for admitting medical errors
- Guidelines for filming consultations
- How not to reorganise the NHS
- Guidelines on choosing a consultant
- Red faces all round
- Should nurses become gatekeepers?
- Guidelines for advertising professional services
- Getting it off your chest
- Forget EBM, bring on MLM
- Why patient choice could cost you money
- Guidelines on tackling aggressive patients
- Time to take sex seriously
- More guidelines for self-experimentation
- More guidelines for self-experimentation
- Guidelines on eating eggs
- Should you feel sorry for TV doctors?
- Guidelines on staying out of trouble
- How to answer some of those tricky questions
- Holiday guidelines for you to cut out and keep
- Guidelines to the future
- Guidelines for reasearch on underwear
- Guidelines on avoiding misdiagnosis of death
- Guidelines for making eye contact with patients
- Moving from knowing best to doing best
- Guidelines for the young GP: resting between patients
- Guidelines on fetching patients in person
- Don't vote for me
- A guide to medical negligence lawyers
- Guidelines on giving and recieving gifts
- Should patients be exposed to medical humour?
- Guidelines on telephone consultations
- Plotting the route to a successful career
- Guidelines on touching patients
- Guidelines for use of the vernacular
- Guidelines for dealing with road rage
- Guidelines on ringing a consultant at home
- Guidelines on doctor patient communication
- Meanwhile, back in the surgery?
- Guidelines for networking within the NHS
- Do doctors need to be told how to behave?
- Guidelines for giving an after-dinner speech
- Evidence-based medicine – a fascinating voyage
- Eating your patients is more fun than guidelines
- Guidelines that matter – spotting a bogus doctor
- Whatever happened to evidence-based medicine?
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