With four distinct themes, the schizophrenia audit support tools, published last month, represent the most comprehensive audit product from NICE for a mental health issue. Combined with the two separate tools for antisocial personality disorder, two for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and one for borderline personality disorder, the last year has seen a significant increase in resources available for mental health trust clinical governance teams.

With an expanding portfolio of guidance from NICE, it is sometimes hard to recall everything. To help remember what NICE recommends read our Recommendation Reminders.

Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultants. This month Stephen Judge describes how the field team is helping the NHS to implement NICE guidance.

As a small, but of course perfectly formed, team covering all of England, there is always a continuous stream of work to manage; from planning and delivering field visits, liaising with other teams at NICE, speaking or contributing to external events and much more.

Learn from your colleagues across the NHS and beyond

• The implementation of NICE guidelines relating to psychological interventions for people with schizophrenia
• Introduction of pulmonary rehabilitation programme in primary care in accordance with COPD guidance
• Implementing the Acutely Ill Patient in Hospital NICE guidance
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In December 2008, NICE presented Bournemouth and Poole PCT with a Shared Learning Award for implementing best-practice guidelines across a range of disease-areas. To help GPs implement NICE guidance, the trust issues monthly guidance summaries highlighting local commissioning and prescribing issues. They also facilitate "NICE Bites" workshops for GPs …

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