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The National Institute of Clinical Excellence heart failure guidelines are out of date just two months after their high-profile launch. Professor Martin Cowie, clinical adviser on the NICE guidelines, said [...]

Drug-switching and generic-prescribing schemes are booming, but concern is growing over how they are run By Nigel Praities The year is 2006, the NHS has just slipped into a deficit [...]

Call to update NICE guidance as study shows test produces far fewer false positives than ECG at little extra cost By Nigel Praities A `scandalous' lack of provision of B-type [...]

Boost to proponents of controversial GPSI services By Nigel Praities A GPSI-led heart failure service can bring dramatic improvements in treatment while saving thousands of pounds compared with equivalent hospital [...]

Report praises GPs for improvements in heart failure treatment, but loss of indicator on Beta-blocker use is a blow By Nigel Praities GPs have raised their game on heart failure, [...]

Payments for drug switching face a legal challenge - but in an era of tightening costs, are they a necessary evil? By Nigel Praities Fast forward to 2012. The London [...]

Future of drug switching schemes is uncertain as ABPI legal challenge goes straight to the European Court EXCLUSIVE By Nigel Praities The UK pharmaceutical industry is to take its legal [...]

GPs' exaggerated fears over Beta-blocker side-effects mean the drugs are significantly underused in patients who could benefit, a major new report claims. And lax targets for use of the drugs [...]

GPs have been told to trawl through hundreds of thousands of heart failure diagnoses and refer any patient who has never had an echocardiogram. Government advisers on the National Institute [...]

Research at the British Cardiac Society annual conference this month covered aspects of GP care. Brian Kelly reports One of two tests to be recommended by the Government for GPs [...]

The Government is set to urge GPs to use a new diagnostic test to reduce pressure on echocardiography services. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance on heart failure, due this [...]