THE NAPC REVIEW WINTER 2002 An Official Publication of the National Association of Primary Care Edited by Leslie Paine OBE

Foreword
Rod Smith, President NAPC

NAPC Executive Officers

Primary Care Groups & Trusts

• Supporting partnerships : an incentive too far?
  Penny Banks
• Primary Care – The Challenge over the next 12 months
  Dr. M. Dewji

Practice Management, Finance and Quality Improvement

• Practice managers and the new GMS contract: opportunity or threat?
  June Huntington PhD FRCGP(Hon)
• Practice Based Contracts and practice management
  Rosey Foster
• GPs with Special Interests (GPSIs)
  Ram Dhillon FRCS
• Wireless technology used in the General Practice Environment
  Dr Mike Bainbridge
• Confidentiality and electronic health records – practical solutions required
  Dr John Nicholas
• Vehicle Finance
  Automobile Association

Health Care Reform

• Health Care reform – first principles: putting consumers in charge
  Professor John Spiers
• Is the NHS irredeemable?
  Professor James A Dunbar TD MD FRCPEdin FRCGP FFPIM

Cardiology

• Vascular Ultrasound in Primary Practice
  David E Goss PhD,
• Three Recent Research Reports From USA

1. Patients Who Take Beta Blockers Before Heart Bypass Surgery Have Improved Outcomes.
2. Non Aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs do not protect individuals from the risk of heart attack
3. Doctors could do more to help adult patients with diabetes reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease
   Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,

Diagnostic Imaging

• The troubled future of Ultrasound in Primary Care
  Jane Bates
• Ultrasound in Primary Care, Optimising Management
  Dr. Paul A. Dubbins

Endocrinology

• Examining ways to improve diabetes care in different health care settings
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• HRT may improve mental function for some postmenopausal women
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,

Neurology

• Almotriptan: a balanced approach to migraine
  Roger Cull

Neuropathology

• Ultrastructural examiniation is essential for diagnosis of papillary meningioma
  S Al-Sarraj, A King, A J Martin, J Jarosz & P L Lantos

Ophthalmology

• Shared Care in the Monitoring of Glaucoma Patients
  S. Nagasubramanian
• Shared Care – 1
  R P L Wormald MA MB MSc FRCS FRCOphth
• Shared Care – 2
  Stephen A. Vernon DM FRCS FRCOphth DO,
• Shared Care: A Personal View
  Ann E.T. Linnell FRCSEd FRCOphth
• Shared care – Epilogue
  Ronald Pitts Crick FRCS FRCOphth

Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Defects of Bone Mineral Metabolism

• Viscosupplementation in Synovial Joints
  Leslie Paine
• Ultrasound and the assessment of osteoporosis
  Dr C M Langton
• Falls, Fractures and Osteoporosis : Primary Care Strategy
  James Robertson

Psychiatry

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children
  Dr. Isobel Hayman
• Neurobiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  Anthony J Cleare
• Repetitive Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)–
  1) A New Treatment for Depression
  Dr Graham Pluck and Dr Declan McLoughlan
  2) Neurophysiological Predictors of Response
  Dr Savaritha Eranti
• Computer-Assisted CBT: An Option in Primary Care?
  Dr. Graeme Whitfield and Dr. Chris Williams

Sports Medicine

• National Sport Medicine Institute of the United Kingdom (NSMI)
  Francesca Wood

Urology

• Urinary Incontinence
  Jane Mules RGN Msc.
• Childhood Nocturnal Enuresis: An Argument for Effective Treatment
  Penny Dobson, MSc, CQSW, RGN

Complementary Medicine

• Osteopathy in Practice.
  Trevor Reeves

Nutrition

• Nutritional Management of Infantile Regurgitation
  Anita MacDonald

Pain Management

• Pain Management
  Richard Gamlin

Respiratory Care

• Maintaining Primary Care Standards of Respiratory Care
  Monica Fletcher, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE, RGN, RSCH, Hvdip

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