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General Advice and Guidance for GP Practices

Disclaimer: Information on these pages is based on common advice and guidance requests.  It is information that may help provide answers to general queries and save the time required in primary care to send an advice and guidance request and in secondary care to answer it.  This is not a replacement for the advice you might need for individual cases and is not criteria for sending a request, nor does it replace the need for a referral where a clinical feels this is appropriate. The intention is to provide helpful generic advice and guidance to support decision making.