Capital letters

Corporate document

Do not use block capitals for a large amount of text, because they are difficult for people to read.

Write headings with a capital letter for only the first word, except for proper nouns.

**Table 7 When and how to use capitals**
Initial capital or title case	Lower case
Branded medicines, even if the brand is all in uppercase Nurofen Vydura Prozac	Generic medicines ibuprofen rimegepant fluoxetine
Proper nouns Down's syndrome Munchausen's syndrome Parkinson's disease Apgar score	Adjectival forms of proper nouns caesarean darwinian parkinsonian
Questionnaire titles Dermatology Life Quality Index Psoriasis Area and Severity Index	Cross references to figures and tables see figure 1 table 2
Government legislation, departments, and job titles Care Act 2014 Health Secretary Government Digital Services Department for Education	Words deriving from a proper noun but are now commonly used braille doppler gram stain hoover
Titles of projects or campaigns Active for Life No Smoking Day	Patient numbers and p values n=1000 p=0.001
North, south, east and west in place names West Lambeth North Manchester General Hospital	North, south, east and west in general use northern England birds fly south for the winter
Government bodies Local Government Association	Government in general use a key government commitment
Trust names Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Trusts in general use local protocols have been developed by trusts