Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
ACE inhibitors
Advance directives ‘living wills’
Alcohol
Antimicrobials
Asthma
Back pain
Bereavement
Chlamydia
Colorectal cancer
Contraception
Deprivation
Diabetes mellitus
Doctor-patient relationship
Ethnic minorities
Evidence-based medicine
Health promotion
Heart disease
Helicobacter pylori
HIV and AIDS
Hormone replacement therapy
Hypertension
Hypertension: British Hypertension Society guidelines
Immunization
Lipids
Mental illness: depression
Mental illness: suicide and deliberate self-harm
Myocardial infarction
NHS: assessment of need
NHS: demand for services
NHS: developing NHS
NHS: primary care
NHS: rationing
Obesity
Osteoporosis
Out-of-hours care
Postnatal depression
Prescribing
Problem drug users
Prostate disease
Screening
Smoking
vii
ix
X
1
4
6
11
18
24
27
34
31
41
46
50
59
65
70
75
77
82
89
93
99
105
108
110
115
125
129
132
134
135
140
143
144
147
151
155
157
163
168
171
173
CoMEm V
Stroke
URTk common cold
URTI: influenza
URTI: others
URTI: otitis media and glue ear
URTI: sore throats
Women’s health
Index
177
180
182
184
185
187
194
199
