In full: Enhanced services investment shortfall
03 Sep 10
View the full results of Pulse's investigation showing how extra investment in enhanced services has failed to materialise, leaving GPs facing a funding shortfall.
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Clinical tools
The aim of this section is to provide useful clinical, non-clinical and patient information and resources for GPs and practice staff to download and use in their practice
If you use a particular resource in your practice that you think other GPs, practice nurses or practice managers would find useful, email a file or web link to PulseToday editor Steve Nowottny and we'll put it on the site so others can use it too.
Latest Downloads
The BMA's 'historic mistake' on the White Paper
09 Aug 10
Read an open letter from the anti-privatisation campaign group London Health Emergency to BMA chair Dr Hamish Meldrum
Travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis: August update
11 Aug 10
Download the latest travel vaccination and malaria prophylaxis advice with Pulse's indespensible vaccination charts.
The health White Paper: FAQs
04 Aug 10
Pulse news editor Ian Quinn provides a bluffer's guide to the health White Paper and the future of GP commissioning
Clinical Downloads
HbA1c to blood glucose calculator
Use this calculator to convert HbA1c readings to an average blood glucose level.
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Weight loss targets calculator
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International Prostate Symptoms Score (IPSS) chart
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Geriatric Depression Scale
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Pregnancy date calculator
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Hepatitis C diagnosis flowchart
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Patient-oriented eczema measure
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CAGE assessment (Alcohol Abuse)
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TIA risk calculator
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Travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis: December update
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Peak flow calculator
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Pulse oximetry: a guide
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Oswestry low back pain disability score
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Travel vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis: March/April update
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Toolkit for NICE FH guidelines
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Nottingham eczema severity score
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Ottawa knee, ankle and foot rules
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Standards for the management of STIs
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Top ten tips for effective antibiotic prescribing
NICE Guidelines
Child protection guidelines and resources
Download all the latest guidance on child safeguarding procedures from NICE, the RCGP and the GMC
Toolkit for NICE FH guidelines
The charity HEART UK has produced a tool kit to help clinicians implement the NICE guidance on familial hypercholesterolaemia
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Parkinson's disease: key practice points
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Bipoloar disorder: key practice points
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Myocardial infarction (MI): secondary prevention
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Fever in children: key practice points
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Anaemia management in CKD
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Tuberculosis: key practice points
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
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Long acting reversible contraception (LARCs)
Non-Clinical Downloads
In full: Enhanced services investment shortfall
View the full results of Pulse's investigation showing how extra investment in enhanced services has failed to materialise, leaving GPs facing a funding shortfall.
The BMA's 'historic mistake' on the White Paper
Read an open letter from the anti-privatisation campaign group London Health Emergency to BMA chair Dr Hamish Meldrum
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The health White Paper: FAQs
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BMA submission to the independent commission into public sector pensions
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GMC Good Medical Practice guidance
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In full: The Government's GP commissioning plans
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In full: Andrew Lansley's speech to the BMA ARM
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In full: The documents behind the NHS Direct nurse cuts
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Prescription charges review
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Child protection guidelines and resources
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Full list of Darzi contract winners
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Service costings calculator
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Department of Health's letter on MPIG
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PE7/PE8 easement calculator
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Primary Care Foundation report into GPs in A&E
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Revealed: The leaked out-of-hours report in full
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Check how much QOF prevalence changes will affect you
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Contract protest resources
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GPC poster on future of general practice
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Dr Hamish Meldrum: 'These proposals represent very significant changes'
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The White Paper explained: Dr David Colin-Thome answers your questions
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What does the White Paper say on out-of-hours? And other questions...
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Reports from the RCGP's first revalidation pilots
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Survey on the future of IT
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Andrew Lansley's letter on revalidation
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Full report into Clinicenta failings
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What patients really want
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Nick Clegg's speech to the Royal College of Nursing
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Health Committee report on overseas doctors in OOH services
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NHS Confederation report into the future of the NHS
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Revised statement of fitness for work (Med 3)
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CQC report into Clinicenta Out of Hospital Services
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Guide to fighting PMS cuts
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Available sources of NHS data
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The BMA's 'GP contract 2008/9 presentation'
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London GPs' resource pack
Patient Leaflets
When should I worry?
An explanatory booklet for parents explaining coughs, colds, earache and sore throats in children.
Swine flu advice poster for patients
In many areas of the country concern over swine vlu is prompting large numbers of patients to visit or call Gp surgeries unnecessarily. The helpful poster for your surgery, attached below, is designed to give clear information about who...
