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Identifying and improving management of bronchiectasis

Mortality in patients with bronchiectasis is up to twice that of the general population, suggesting that this is a group who needs to be identified, correctly diagnosed, and for whom management should be improved
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Stop smoking interventions and services. NICE NG92, March 2018

New guidance from NICE aims to ensure that everyone who smokes is advised and encouraged to stop and given the support they need. It emphasises the importance of targeting vulnerable groups who find smoking cessation hard or who smoke a lot. The guidance is aimed not only at those responsible for commissioning services but healthcare professionals delivering stop smoking interventions in primary and community care settings.
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• 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
• Expenses uplift holds out promise for GPN pay rises
• Leading nurse body calls for more investment in GPNs
• NMC launches consultation on overhaul of fitness to practise procedures
• CQC updates advice on staff immunisation

Scarlet fever

In the light of the current outbreak of scarlet fever, which has seen the number of cases double in the first three months of the year compared with the same period in 2017, this is a timely reminder of the presentation and prognosis of the infection, including mechanisms of transmission, when to take a throat swab and culture, differential diagnosis and complications.

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

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

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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18 Jan 2018

The importance of achieving target HbA1c in the early years No safe levels of smoking – warning  Test results management in general practice: learning from clinical negligence claims Practice Nurse at 30! Aussie flu compounds winter pressures Interstitial Lung Disease Expand nursing workforce at ‘scale and pace’ – Health Committee

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