All Depression articles
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Test and reflectPatient scenarios: depression in children and young people
The following scenarios are fictitious but similar to those experienced by real patients and are designed to help you reflect on what you have learnt after reading the article. They could also be used for group discussion in an education or practice meeting. There are no right or wrong answers ...
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Key learning points
Key learning points: NICE depression in children and young people
Dr Janice Allister identifies five key learning points for primary care from the updated NICE guideline on depression in children and young people
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Hot topic
GPs should promote physical activity in people with mental health issues
Dr Dominic Horne discusses the importance of physical activity in people with mental health problems and the role of primary care in monitoring their physical health
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Top tips
Top tips: depression
Dr Ed Beveridge offers top tips for the assessment, management, and treatment of adults with depression in primary care
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Implementing guidelines
GPs can help to identify older people at higher risk of mental decline
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis highlights the key recommendations for primary care and commissioners from NICE Guideline 32 on independence and mental wellbeing in older people
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NICE quality standard article
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
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Implementing guidelines
Depression and chronic physical health problems: advice updated by NICE
Professor Christopher Dowrick highlights the main recommendations from NICE Clinical Guideline 91 and discusses the stepped-care model on interventions
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Implementing guidelines
NICE has modified its stepped-care model for treating depression
Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham discusses NICE Clinical Guideline 90 on depression in adults and emphasises the importance of the GP’s role in its implementation
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Good practice initiative
Psychological therapy provides significant benefits for patients
Dr Peter Young's team, joint runner up in the Guidelines in Practice Award 2006, shows how implementing the NICE guideline for depression can reduce antidepressant prescribing
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GMS contract
Best practice guidance for the depression indicators in QOF2
Dr Alan Cohen and his colleagues at the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) discuss the implications of the depression clinical indicators in primary care
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Implementing guidelines
NICE guideline will increase recognition of depression in children
The new guideline from NICE highlights the need to train GPs to recognise depression in children and young people, says Dr John Hague
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Implementing guidelines
NICE recommends a stepped care approach to managing depression
Effective recognition in primary care is the first stage in a structured approach to depression management, as Stephen Pilling (left) and Dr Paul Harvey explain
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GMS contract
Creating an enhanced service will improve care in depression
GPs are well placed to manage depression and could provide a high standard of care by setting up an enhanced service under the new contract, says Dr Jill Murie
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Personal view
Can GPs provide cognitive behavioural therapy?
The new contract’s aspirations for enhanced care for depressed patients are laudable but underfunded, says Dr Phillip Bland
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 2. Postnatal Depression
2. Postnatal Depression
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Implementing guidelines
Early diagnosis improves outcomes in postnatal depression
The SIGN guideline on postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis emphasises the importance of early recognition, as Dr Imogen Stephens explains
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Personal view
SIGN guideline raises awareness of PND
The SIGN guideline on postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis should be required reading, says Dr Chris Barclay
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Good practice initiative
Practice nurse input improves care of depressed patients
Dr Phillip Bland explains how practice audit highlighted the benefits of sharing the care of patients who were newly diagnosed with depression with the practice nurse
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Implementing guidelines
BAP revises guidelines for antidepressant use
Dr Ian Anderson explains why the British Association for Psychopharmacology felt the need to develop new, evidence-based guidelines for treating depression
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Good practice initiative
GP audit highlights the need to improve lithium monitoring
Dr Nigel Watson describes an audit of patients on lithium therapy in his practice which prompted the development of an action plan to improve monitoring
