Dysfunctional doctors – will revalidation help?

Revalidation wave hits European doctors.

Will GP revalidation make things better or worse?

CSCW Systems : Will ODP help ?

This paper is concerned with the role of Open Distributed Processing systems within the development of cooperative systems. In particular, we focus on the need to provide Open CSCW systems and their impact on distributed systems. The work currently being undertaken in Open Distributed Systems (ODP) is used to highlight signifcant trends for future open CSCW systems. It will be shown that the CS...

Junior doctors turn to nurses for help.

NURSES AROUND the UK have been helping some 5,000 newly qualified doctors who began their first house jobs in August to cope with the initial pressure of their workload.

Identity cards help patients identify their doctors

Patients admitted to hospital are immediately overloaded with information from staff in A&E, to subsequent acute medical and inpatient wards. Essential details are conveyed to patients at each step, including diagnosis, management and identification of various team members involved in their care. An initial audit within our South London hospital revealed only one third of patients admitted onto...