All Mental health articles – Page 5
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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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Implementing guidelines
WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
Interactive summary cards to use with patients
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Good practice initiative
Developing a strategy to implement the NSF for Mental Health
Collaboration and communication have formed the cornerstone of one PCT's approach to implementing the NSF for Mental Health, as Dr Jim Broadbank explains
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Implementing guidelines
WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
Interactive summary cards to use with patients
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Implementing guidelines
WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care: chronic tiredness
Dr Charles Sears finds it invaluable to have the current advice on angina management set out succinctly in the guidance from SIGN
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Implementing guidelines
WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
Interactive summary cards to use with patients
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Implementing guidelines
WHO guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
Interactive summary cards to use with patients
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Implementing guidelines
SIGN guidelines aims to promote early recognition of ADHD
The new SIGN guideline provides a framework for evidence-based assessment and management of hyperactivity disorders, explains Dr Chris Steer
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Personal view
SIGN offers much-needed guidance on ADHD for GPs
GP Dr Chris Barclay welcomes comprehensive guidance from SIGN on treating attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children
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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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Personal view
The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
Stephen Pilling (left) and Dr Tim Kendall, co-directors of the NICE National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
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Implementing guidelines
Guideline helps GPs choose appropriate psychological therapy
A new DoH guideline provides the first evidence-based recommendations for referral to psychological therapies, as Professor Glenys Parry and Dr John Cape explain
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Personal view
New guidance on Alzheimer's drugs poses challenge for GPs
Dr Richard Harvey, Director of Research, Alzheimer's Society
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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
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Good practice initiative
New guidelines provide good framework for treating depression
Recent guidelines on the treatment of depression in primary care are comprehensive and serve as a useful aide-mémoire, reports Dr Rob Wicks
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Implementing guidelines
The SIGN route to better dementia care
Dr Iain McIntosh explains why guidelines on dementia management were urgently needed and how the SIGN guidelines should help to raise standards of care
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