Latest expert articles – Page 2
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Implementing guidelinesHow to improve care for lower urinary tract infection
Vinod Nargund revisits NICE Guideline 109 on lower urinary tract infections, and highlights primary care’s central role in recognition and management
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Top tips
Top tips: ADHD in children and young people
Dr Natasha Halliwell offers 10 top tips on the identification and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and young people
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Hot topic
IBD care requires a coordinated and proactive approach
Jackie Glatter and Dr Kevin Barrett discuss the IBD UK report on services for people with inflammatory bowel disease, which highlights room for improvement
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Hot topic
NHS restructure survey: grounds for optimism, but barriers remain
Preliminary findings from the Guidelines in Practice survey on the NHS reorganisation reveal your hopes for its potential to improve patient care—provided obstacles to implementation are overcome
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Implementing guidelines
Adopt a stepped approach to atopic eczema management
Dr Caroline Ward discusses NICE recommendations on the treatment of atopic eczema, focusing on eczema complicated by bacterial or viral infection
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Implementing guidelines
Tailor treatment of type 2 diabetes to improve cardiovascular outcomes
Karen Bartha discusses the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists position statement on the use of newer antidiabetic drugs in patients with cardiovascular disease
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Implementing guidelines
GINA asthma strategy: what’s new for 2021?
Dr Mark L Levy highlights updated recommendations on asthma management from the 2021 Global Initiative for Asthma report
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Hot topic
The new NHS model: implications for primary care
Dr Karen Kirkham explains how primary care networks will work within integrated care systems to deliver place-based care in a restructured NHS
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Top tips
Top tips: identifying and managing constipation
Professor Anton Emmanuel offers six top tips on managing constipation in primary care
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Key learning points
Key learning points: updated GMC prescribing guidance
Dr Toni Hazell identifies five key learning points from the updated GMC guidance Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices
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Hot topic
Managing COVID-19-related mental ill health in primary care
Dr Emma Nash discusses the challenges of assessing and addressing poor mental health in the context of COVID-19
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Implementing guidelines
Manage diabetes and comorbidities with a joined-up strategy
Dr Umesh Dashora and colleagues from the CaReMeUK Partnership outline guidance on how to manage type 2 diabetes with cardiovascular and renal disease
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Key learning points
Key learning points: managing bronchiectasis in adults
Dr Kevin Gruffydd-Jones identifies six key learning points for primary care from the British Thoracic Society guideline on bronchiectasis
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Top tips
Top tips: inflammatory bowel disease
Dr Kevin Barrett offers 10 practical tips on the role of primary care in diagnosing and managing inflammatory bowel disease
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Hot topic
Understanding and overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Dr Claire Davies explores reasons underlying, and methods of addressing, reluctance to receive COVID-19 vaccination
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Differential diagnoses
Lower urinary tract symptoms in men: what’s the diagnosis?
Dr Toni Hazell presents two case studies that explore common causes and primary care management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
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Implementing guidelines
Bites and stings: when to prescribe an antibiotic
Dr Caroline Ward summarises recommendations from two NICE antimicrobial prescribing guidelines for insect bites and stings, and human and animal bites
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Implementing guidelines
Key learning points: NICE COVID-19—long-term effects
Dr Claire Davies distils the NICE guideline on managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 into six key learning points for primary care
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Top tips
Top tips: identifying domestic abuse
Dr Vasumathy Sivarajasingam offers 10 top tips on the role of the GP in identifying and supporting patients experiencing domestic abuse
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Implementing guidelines
Obesity management requires a holistic, health-centred approach
Dr Rachel Pryke presents a summary of consensus guidance that aims to help practitioners in primary care to support patients living with obesity with weight management
