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Guidelines in Practice articles
- Improvement of services is needed to reduce the impact of ADHD
- Patient education is vital when prescribing strong opioids for pain
- Pregnant women should be assessed for mood disorders
- Patients who self-harm should be encouraged to ask for help
- NICE updates its recommendations on treatment of epilepsy
- GPs need to be alert to risk of depression in all consultations
- A clear pathway will aid diagnosis of autism in children
- Patients with mental health illnesses are at higher risk of CVD
- Primary care has an important role in the recognition of ADHD
- People with psychosis should be asked about substance use
- NICE brings together guidance on identifying mental health disorders
- GPs have a role throughout the GAD stepped-care model
- Early diagnosis will help GPs to attain the quality standard for dementia
- Carers of patients with dementia must receive a needs assessment
- The recognition and diagnosis of delirium needs improving
- NICE outlines how to treat alcohol-related physical conditions
- Prompt referral is required for suspected new epileptic seizures
- Recognising symptom patterns will aid early diagnosis of dementia
- Recognising symptom patterns will aid early diagnosis of dementia
- Neuropathic pain can be managed in non-specialist settings
- Suspected Parkinson's disease should be referred untreated
- Prophylaxis has an important role in migraine management
- SIGN guideline on ADHD/HKD updates treatment options
- Depression and chronic physical health problems: advice updated by NICE
- NICE has modified its stepped-care model for treating depression
- Borderline personality disorder requires a team-based approach
- Patients with stroke or TIA require immediate medical attention
- GPs have an important role in the recognition and prevention of ASPD
- An emergency response is critical for stroke symptoms
- The majority of patients with headache can be managed in primary care
- Breakthrough pain should be distinguished from background pain
- SIGN guideline on headache provides user-friendly advice
- NICE guideline on ADHD emphasises importance of patient-centred care
- NICE guideline on ADHD emphasises importance of patient-centred care
- A stepped-care approach can be effective for ADHD
- Most headache types are suited to primary care management
- New recommendations will aid assessment of pain in the elderly
- Doctors must respond to signs of chronic fatigue syndrome
- What is the impact of the NICE bipolar disorder guideline 1 year on?
- SIGN guideline highlights warning signs for autism spectrum disorders
- PD guidance from NICE has been difficult to implement
- GPs are well placed to provide treatment for substance misusers
- Integrated care pathway for neuropathic pain will help facilitate patient care
- Your patient presents with facial paralysis: is it Bell?s palsy?
- Dementia guideline will assist GPs with diagnosis and care
- Guideline revises appraisal advice on dementia care
- Psychological therapy provides significant benefits for patients
- Best practice guidance for the dementia indicators in QOF2
- Best practice guidance for the depression indicators in QOF2
- Best practice guidance for the mental health indicators in QOF2
- Communication is key when treating patients with bipolar disorder
- Communication is key with your Parkinson's disease patients
- Early assessment of dementia is essential
- Parkinson's disease patients should be referred untreated
- Teenagers are set to lose out with the new epilepsy indicators
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers: 26. Management of patients with dementia
- Early recognition and treatment of dementia will benefit patients
- NICE guideline will increase recognition of depression in children
- NICE guideline will increase recognition of depression in children
- NICE recommends a stepped care approach to OCD
- Addressing emotional disorders in children: a school-based project
- Addressing emotional disorders in children: a school-based project
- NICE recommends a stepped care approach to OCD
- What should GPs do to improve epilepsy care?
- NICE guideline will help GPs to identify patients with PTSD
- SIGN clarifies the use of mood stabilisers in bipolar disorder
- Have QOF indicators improved epilepsy management?
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers: 23. Bipolar affective disorder
- SIGN guideline will improve care in childhood epilepsy
- Have the new contract?s incentives improved care?
- Shared care pathway is key to achieving mental health targets
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers: 22. Management of epilepsies in children and young people
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients and carers
- National enhanced service will benefit patients with MS
- Provision of CBT should become a priority
- NICE anxiety guideline highlights importance of psychological therapy
- NICE recommends a stepped care approach to managing depression
- Contract will support GPs in providing care for drug users
- SIGN stroke guideline addresses needs of patients with dysphagia
- NICE epilepsy guideline recommends regular structured reviews
- Guidelines in Practice Award winner sets gold standard for epilepsy care
- Creating an enhanced service will improve care in depression
- Forth Valley guideline transforms standards of epilepsy care
- Guideline points the way to better care for those who self-harm
- Primary care mental health service ensures fast access for patients
- Can GPs provide cognitive behavioural therapy?
- Contract will address needs of patients with severe mental illness
- Which date should we use to record the last seizure?
- Quality indicators are basis for improving epilepsy management
- NICE guideline will help to rationalise MS care
- Primary care guideline will aid management of harmful drinking
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 13. Management of harmful drinking
- SIGN guideline will help GPs tackle problem drinking
- Practice's structured approach improves management of epilepsy
- Guideline will promote optimal management for epilepsy patients
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients 11. Epilepsy in adults
- Is 'test and treat' the best strategy in dyspepsia?
- SIGN patient information: 7. Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people
- WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
- WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
- WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
- Developing a strategy to implement the NSF for Mental Health
- Lithium monitoring audit highlights need for regular review
- WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care: chronic tiredness
- NICE referral advice: 2. Acute low back pain
- WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
- GPs devise guidelines for managing at-risk and problem drinkers
- WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
- SIGN guidelines aims to promote early recognition of ADHD
- Problem drug use service focuses on health promotion
- SIGN guideline paves the way for better control of cancer pain
- The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
- Guideline helps GPs choose appropriate psychological therapy
- Practice-based guidelines enable GPs to manage heroin users effectively
- SIGN head injury guidance is a valuable tool for GPs
- New guidance on Alzheimer's drugs poses challenge for GPs
- BAP revises guidelines for antidepressant use
- New back pain guidelines advise early return to work
- Guidelines standardise physiotherapy for stress incontinence
- Time to take a fresh look at learning disability
- RCN takes child-centred approach to assessment of pain in children
- Back pain guidelines highlight psychocosial factors
- GP audit highlights the need to improve lithium monitoring
- Opinion on GP treatment of drug misusers divided
- Updated guidance on drug misusers focuses on primary care
- Do GPs want to manage drug misusers?
- Practice audit identifies shortfalls in epilepsy management
- The SIGN route to better dementia care
- New guidelines provide good framework for treating depression
- Improving care for adults with poorly controlled epilepsy
- Putting back pain guidelines into practice
Guidelines summaries
- Alcohol-use disorders: diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence
- Anxiety: management of anxiety (panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia, and generalised anxiety disorder) in adults in primary, secondary and community care
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, young people and adults
- Autism: recognition, referral and diagnosis of children and young people on the autism spectrum
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)
- Common mental health disorders: identification and pathways to care
- Core interventions in the treatment and management of schizophrenia in primary and secondary care
- Dementia: supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
- Depression in children and young people
- Depression: treatment and management of depression in adults, including adults with a chronic physical health problem
- Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions and opioid detoxification
- Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia) in adults: management in primary, secondary and community care
- Neuropathic pain: the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in adults in non-specialist settings
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Opioids in palliative care: safe and effective prescribing of strong opioids for pain in palliative care of adults
- Parkinson's disease: diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care
- Psychosis and schizophrenia: recognition and management of psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people
- Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse: assessment and managementin adults and young people
- Self-harm: longer-term management
- Self-harm: the short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of self-harm
- The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care
- Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder
- Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants
- The acute treatment of migraine
- The GP's guide to Parkinson's
- Management of restless legs syndrome in primary care
- The assessment of pain in older people
- Post-polio syndrome
- Parkinson's aware in primary care
NICE clinical guidelines
- Opioids in palliative care: safe and effective prescribing of strong opioids for pain in palliative care of adults
- The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care
- Service user experience in adult mental health: improving the experience of care for people using adult NHS mental health services
- Self-harm: longer-term management
- Autism - Recognition, referral and diagnosis of children and young people on the autism spectrum
- Common mental health disorders
- Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse
- Anxiety
- Transient loss of consciousness in adults and young people
- Motor neurone disease - non-invasive ventilation
- Delirium
- Depression: the treatment and management of depression in adults (update)
- Neuropathic pain - pharmacological management
- Depression with a chronic physical health problem
- Schizophrenia (update)
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Metastatic spinal cord compression
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis
- Drug misuse: opioid detoxification
- Drug misuse: psychosocial interventions
- Antenatal and postnatal mental health
- Dementia
- Bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Multiple sclerosis
- Epilepsy
- Depression (amended)
- Anxiety (amended)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Depression in children and young people
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Parkinson's disease
SIGN guidelines
- Management of perinatal mood disorders
- Non-pharmaceutical management of depression
- Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson's disease
- Management of attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people
- Diagnosis and management of headache in adults
- Management of invasive meningococcal disease in children and young people
- Assessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders
- Management of patients with dementia
- Bipolar affective disorder
- Diagnosis and management of epilepsies in children and young people
- The management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence in primary care
- Diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults
- Postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis
- Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people
- Psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia
- Interventions in the management of behavioural and psychological aspects of dementia
PRODIGY
- Alcohol - problem drinking
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Epilepsy
- Parkinson's disease
- Migraine
- Headache - medication overuse
- Depression—antenatal and postnatal
- Depression
- Dementia
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Delirium
- Tiredness/fatigue in adults
- Headache—assessment
- Headache—cluster
- Headache—medication overuse
- Headache—tension-type
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—Management
- Epilepsy
- Parkinson's disease
- Depression in children
- Migraine
- Headache
Demonstrating impact 
- Patients who self-harm should be encouraged to ask for help
- NICE updates its recommendations on treatment of epilepsy
- A clear pathway will aid diagnosis of autism in children
- People with psychosis should be asked about substance use
- NICE brings together guidance on identifying mental health disorders
- GPs have a role throughout the GAD stepped-care model
- Prompt referral is required for suspected new epileptic seizures
- Suspected Parkinson's disease should be referred untreated
- Prophylaxis has an important role in migraine management
- SIGN guideline on ADHD/HKD updates treatment options
- Depression and chronic physical health problems: advice updated by NICE
Test and reflect
- NICE has modified its stepped-care model for treating depression
- An emergency response is critical for stroke symptoms
- SIGN guideline on headache provides user-friendly advice
- NICE guideline on ADHD emphasises importance of patient-centred care
- Most headache types are suited to primary care management
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