We have received enquiries concerning the advice in the How to put NICE guidance into practice booklet which suggests that when guidance is not relevant it is recorded in the risk register.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an essential part of practice for healthcare professionals and the latest batch of NICE and BMJ FREE Learning on-line education modules will support clinicians in understanding some of our recent clinical guidelines.

Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultants. This month Chris Connell tells us what he's been up to.

This autumn the Field Team is starting to focus on new areas for the second half of the financial year and in the last edition my colleague Gill Mathews focussed on our activities within the NHS.

Congratulations to the following projects who have been shortlisted for this year's awards:

Clinical Category

• Establishing a children's insulin pump service in Leeds - St James's University Hospital
• Saving sight the N.I.C.E way - University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Can we improve the implementation of the NICE Guidelines for Depression and the Anxiety Disorders in Southwark? - Institute of Psychiatry

Health and wellbeing category

• Finding the mission for commissioning - NHS North Yorkshire and York
• Promoting Physical Activity in the Built or Natural Environments Through Applying NICE Guidance - NHS Gloucestershire
• Putting NICE guidelines into practice by managing a Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Programme - Addaction

General category

• Monitoring of NICE Implementation: A Commissioner Perspective - NHS Sheffield
• Evidence-based training for Evidence-based Psychological Therapies - Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, University of Reading, Charlie Waller Memorial Trust
• NICE & Knowledge: Developing an initiative to enable a robust cascade of NICE Guidance backed by documentary evidence of clinicians' knowledge at appraisal. (update 2009) - South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Shortlisted candidates will be offered free and discounted places at the NICE conference, where they will be given a platform to present their work for the chance to win £1,000 to support implementation within their organisation.

• Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC)
• Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
• Drugs used in the management of urinary incontinence