The revised NICE (2021) guidelines (NG209): Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence, recommended greater flexibility and clearer guidance in the use of nicotine...
When considering a treatment to improve glycaemic control, it is important to involve the individual in the decision-making process and to consider their specific circumstances and potential...
This will be a useful and highly relevant resource for independent prescribers, whether they are clinicians considering a refresher or students/newly qualified NMPs who need a reference text. The...
On the 21 February 2023, it was announced that the UK government would start subsidising the price of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), with around 400 000 women in England potentially benefiting...
The UK government has announced a new initiative to make hormone replacement therapy (HRT) more affordable for women experiencing symptoms of menopause. The move is expected to benefit hundreds of...
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Diabetes UK (2023), together with the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, defines remission as HbA1c levels remaining below 48 mmol/mol or 6.5% for...
This article was published in BMC Medicine, used a retrospective cohort study approach to examine data between 2000 and 2019 (Subramanian et al, 2023). The author's main driver to conduct this...
When it comes to safety in healthcare, rules, regulations and guidance are essential to help secure protection for patients and healthcare workers. For example, the Health and Safety Executive (2023)...
Data were retrospectively collected from patient cases that were admitted to the gynaecology ward following gynaecology surgery at a tertiary care hospital in the UK, between 1 July 2019 and 30...
The FSRH have produced a service standard for record keeping in sexual and reproductive healthcare consultations (FSRH, 2019a). It recommends clear documentation of clinical history, assessment,...
Evidence to date suggests that the liquid form of iron supplementation has comparable efficacy to the tablet formulation, but with significantly lower gastrointestinal side effects. The evidence...
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