This is a new guideline from NICE on pancreatitis from Sep 2018. Most of it is aimed at secondary care, but there are a few things that are useful for us which I've outlined below. Advice to give pati...
This is a new guideline from NICE on the use of the Peristeen transanal irrigation system for managing bowel dysfunction. Peristeen is otherwise known as Coloplast; patients use it every other day. It...
This is a new guideline from NICE on pancreatic cancer. Most of this is aimed at specialists, but there was a useful bit on when to consider surveillance in people who are at higher risk. Hopefully mo...
This is a new guideline from NICE on cirrhosis. The most important bit for us is knowing who should be tested as we may need to be referring these patients on. Higher risk patientsHepatitis B Hepati...
This is an updated guideline on coeliac disease from NICE. They have added a few extra presentations where people should be tested, but otherwise there is little that is new. See my coeliac disease re...
This is a new guideline from Nice advising that naloxegol can be used for treating opioid induced constipation. Naloxegol is a form of naloxol which has been pegalated and selectively antagonises peri...
This is a new guideline from Nice on the management of GORD in infants and children. The main differences from common practice is that they advice that PPI or H2 antagonists are only used if other spe...
This is an update to the 2008 guideline on IBS from NICE. Most of it is same; I have listed the changes. Diet Most advice is the same. However, for people with symptoms not responding to other treatme...
This new guideline from the British Society for Gastroenterology (BSG) gives advice on the diagnosis and management of coeliac disease (CD). The diagnosis bits are useful for us as they widen the advi...
This is a new guideline from NICE on gallstone disease. It doesn't say anything very surprising and doesn't change our current management, but does try to unify practice, which can currently be quite ...
This is guideline from NICE on a newly recommended treatment for chronic idiopathic constipation. The medication is Lubiprostone, which works by activating chloride channels in the GI tract, thus incr...
Aimee Lettis from the GP Update team gives us short, sharp nuggets of clinical information for sessional GPs. Diagnosing colorectal cancer can be hugely challenging. Many patients come worried they ha...
We know that shingles occurs more commonly in cancer patients. It has been postulated that the risk of a cancer diagnosis after zoster may also be increased. This large UK-based primary care study has...
This is a new guideline from the BCSH. It is quite a chunky guideline and it covers a lot of detail. I will give a few 'top learning points' then a more detailed summary beneath. At the end I have att...
Aimee Lettis gives us short, sharp nuggets of clinical information for sessional GPs. I’ll cover something you will be familiar with as GPs: anal fissures, as well the new test on the block, faecal ca...
This is an updated guideline from Nice on dyspepsia and GORD. It updates the guideline from 2004 and I must say I found it quite non-specific and a little confusing about certain aspects, e.g. when en...
At the moment, we're pretty 'sensitive' at spotting IBD (i.e. we pick up nearly all cases), but we also refer a lot of patients who don't have IBD (i.e. we're not very 'specific'). This is expensive a...
This guideline is mainly relevant for secondary care and doesn’t really change our practice. There are a few useful bits for us. General Information:Stop Smoking – encourage this as has a huge impac...
You may have seen the recent letter from QA asking that we prescribe bowel prep for patients going to endoscopy. This guideline gives advice on how you can safely do this. Portsmouth prefers Picolax (...
This guideline is aimed at secondary care and bleeding from peptic-ulcers or varices. Bear in mind, that this doesn’t really look at management of other causes of bleeding, like Mallory-Weiss tears an...
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