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The ICGP’s ‘Practical Guide to Integrated Type 2 Diabetes Care’, launched in 2016, advocates an integrated care pathway with the joint involvement of all levels of care (primary, secondary and tertiary levels), in order to optimise the outcomes in patients with diabetes.

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Download PDF Chronic pain has been defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as “pain without apparent biological value that has persisted beyond the normal tissue healing time (usually taken to be three months)”.

Download PDF -Improvements in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) over the last few decades means that disease remission is now a realistic goal for many patients.

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Download PDF The ICGP’s new ‘Practical Guide to Integrated Type 2 Diabetes Care’, launched in February 2016, has been developed in recognition of the fact that the optimal management of patients with a chronic disease such type 2 diabetes requires a formal and more structured model of care, and the flexibility to deal with the diverse needs of patients at

Diagnosis of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia BPH and complications Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a histologic diagnosis characterised by proliferation of prostate cells.

Pharmacological treatment Most patients with BPH do not present with obvious surgical indications; they often have milder LUTS which is initially managed with medication.