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NICE - advert re guidance for treatment.

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There is a half page advertisement in Saturday's Daily Telegraph magazine by osteoplan.com/ nice.

It states "suffering from arthritis? Is your doctor treating you using NICE guidance?"

" Studies show that less than 1 in 10 arthritis patients are told about all the available treatments by their doctor."

There is a simple test list which lists some available services.

Surely all this is relevant to AF patients too and would mean that NICE guidelines are obligatory ?

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GPs don't seem to know much about anything these days I am disturbed when I find myself in front of a GP who has to thumb through the BNF or MiMs to look something up but then am I expecting too much from them? - Probably.... Its all about budgets and the less the patients know the better because it'll cost us.....unfortunately for them today's GPs are meeting a new breed of well informed patients who turn up at consultations with stuff they've printed off from the internet relating to their condition and are sometimes greeted with a pat answer "well don't believe everything you read on the internet" as I have been. I've had wrong dosages given wrong meds given wrong diagnoses given...or not treated at all leading to a more serious condition like the one I have now....to be honest I take a list of symptoms with me now and shove it under a GPs nose. I have totally lost faith in all of them because many of them don't know what they seem to be doing...sorry rambled a bit there :-D :-D

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jennydog in reply to Loo53

It's frightening. I thought that some patients being given aspirin might tell their GPs about the new guidelines.

Good luck on Tuesday. I am at Broadgreen that day for my pre-op and Carmonia is a week behind me.

I had a panic on Thursday when my son (33) rang to say that he had just been diagnosed with shingles and his GP said it was contagious so he couldn't take me to Broadgreen. We separately Googled it and came to the same conclusions. You can't get shingles from shingles and and you can't get shingles from chickenpox but you can get chickenpox from shingles. I've had both so panic over!

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BobDVolunteer in reply to jennydog

We did this last week funnily enough. Shingles is the same virus as chicken pox but you can't catch it as such. If you have had chicken pox then the virus lives in your spine and comes out when your immune system is low.

Bob

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Great Jennydog so I'll be able to give you both the heads up! I should imagine you'll both be on the Amanda Unit the same as me for your ablations...will let you know about that too! I'm resigned to it now this time Tuesday night it'll all be over! :-D :-D

I read this too, it's been in many National papers, it's interesting especially the bit about, has your GP has told you about new meds

In any other regulated role it is compulsory to be aware of any changes especially when giving advice. If the medical profession do not take heed, then the future holds a worrying couple of decades for GP 's and the legal sector will be rubbing its hands.

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