Overview to Patient Education 8e
First published in 1992 and now in its eighth edition, Murtagh’s Patient Education is the proven international standard for patient education material. This tried-and-tested resource provides general practitioners, general practice nurses, registrars and pharmacists with accurate and accessible information to distribute to patients. Written in simple non-technical language, the information on each condition is presented in a concise, friendly, single-page format so it can be easily photocopied or printed and distributed to patients to help them understand and manage their medical condition. 

Among the 19 new topics in this edition are:

• the infections—listeria, toxoplasmosis and Zika virus
• the genetic disorders—cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
• body mass index and a BMI ready reckoner. Most of the existing sheets have been revised, including major updates to women’s health topics such as domestic violence, the combined pill, endometriosis, cervical cancer screening and HPV. There is also an expanded mental health section which now includes information about drugs of addiction.
• fertility awareness and family planning.


Overview to Practice Tips 8e
Murtagh’s Practice Tips is the trusted resource that provides tips for GPs and other medical
practitioners drawn from John Murtagh’s extensive experience in practice. It is the essential guide
for tried-and-tested approaches to treatment and improvisation methods, using convenient tools
and readily available equipment to treat patients as effectively as possible. For this eighth edition,
Professor Murtagh is joined by Dr Justin Coleman, who wrote the ‘GP Tips’ handy hints column in
Medical Observer for 13 years.


Content throughout this new edition has been updated, providing essential information, more than
450 detailed illustrations, and step-by-step instructions on how to deal with conditions encountered
by GPs around the world in everyday practice. New and updated content includes:
• accessible technology tips
• excisions
• the phone as a medical tool
• injections and topical anaesthesia
• cryotherapy
• therapeutic venesection.


Written with the busy practitioner in mind, this latest edition describes techniques using common
terminology to suit practitioners at all levels of experience.