NICE Clinical Guideline 34: updated hypertension guidance

Early management of head injury: summary of updated NICE guidance.

Head injury is the commonest cause of death and disability in people aged 1-40 years in the UK. Each year, 1.4 million people attend emergency departments in England and Wales with a recent head injury. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance onmanaging head injury in 2003 (clinical guideline 4) and updated this in 2007 (clinical guideline 56), which resu...

Is National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline a nice guideline?

Management of hypertension in adults in primary care: NICE guideline.

British Journal ofGeneral Practice, March 2012 163 INTRODUCTION Hypertension is common and is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular events such as stroke and ischaemic heart disease. It is responsible for approximately 12% of consultations in primary care. This is a summary of the key points in the 2011 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) hypertension guideline.1 ...

NICE update: NICE public health guidance update.

This guidance aims to support routine provision of brief advice on physical activity in primary care practice. You can view the full physical activity pathway at http:// pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/physical-activity The guidance is for commissioners of health services and anyone working in primary care whose remit includes offering lifestyle advice. These include exercise professionals, GPs, ...

What's nice about the new NICE guideline?

A new national guideline for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in June. Although technically only applicable to England andWales (and even thenonly if adopted by theWelshAssembly), itwill be perceived by many international authorities as ‘the British guideline’ (with apologies to our S...