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Understanding heart failure

Heart failure presents a significant burden to patients, their families and the wider health and care systems. Optimised treatments, supported self-management and regular review can both extend and improve quality of life; and primary care nursing teams can add tremendous value throughout the patient pathway
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Global strategy for asthma management and prevention (2018 update)

The latest GINA report clarifies the concept of independent risk factors for exacerbation and puts new emphasis on the importance of uncontrolled asthma symptoms, higher bronchodilator reversibility, and identifies additional risk factors for developing persistent airflow limitation. It also updates advice about FeNO testing in diagnosis and ongoing treatment.1
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• New guidance on treating diabetes in elderly and frail patients
• SU treatment effective long-term in neonatal diabetes
• Updated GINA guidance stresses symptoms as risk factor for asthma attacks
• New crisis looms in GP workforce
• Why sodium valproate is being banned for most women and girls
• Should e-cigarettes be recommended to help smokers quit?
• NHS drug costs outstrip increase in budget
• ‘Major concern’ as more EU nurses leave the UK register
• Deaths from asthma increase by 21% in 5 years
• Simplified shingles programme aims to reverse declining uptake

Acne vulgaris: clinical review

After completing this module, you should be better able to:

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• You too can be a digital practice nurse champion
• Managing type 2 diabetes in elderly patients: new recommendations
• Understanding heart failure
• Travel health update 
• When guidelines collide – part one: Asthma diagnosis
• Global strategy for asthma management and prevention (2018 update)

15 May 2018

Identifying and improving management of bronchiectasis The general practice contract: Implications for practice nurses Diagnostic uncertainties in eczema and psoriasis The right indemnity or insurance for you More menopause education urgently needed Travel health update

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12 Apr 2018

Meeting the needs of people with a learning disability Hypoglycaemia in hospital – How to prepare your patients Guide to claiming your full tax relief Travel health update Stepping away from inertia in diabetes care Drug interactions: Important considerations for nurse prescribers

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13 Mar 2018

Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management. NICE NG88, March 2018 The impact of Human Papilloma Virus on cervical screening Managing adult malnutrition in the community, 2017 Asthma-COPD overlap: diagnosis and management Public satisfaction with primary care at all time low Vaccinating children: planning to reduce pain Travel health update Fibromyalgia: are the nuances delaying diagnosis? One quarter of population accounts for one half of health service use

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13 Feb 2018

Study aims to help thousands of headache sufferers Curing type 2 diabetes? The DiRECT study and its potential impact on primary care Anti-static spacer device improves asthma control Joint paints in primary care New low dose IUS offers additional contraceptive option Chilhood immunisations: Dealing with the out of the ordinary Travel health update  Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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