GENERAL COMMITTEE REPORT 1977–1980

Report of the Education-Committee of the General Medical Council

" A grand opportunity missed," is the depressing verdict which a careful perusal of the above begets. After 1892 the duration of medical study is to be five years. If these five }?ears had been devoted to genuine medical study, we should have had nothing but congratulations to offer; but as the first of these five years is devoted to studies which are not medical, and as the last year is to be ...

General Assembly, Third Committee

General Assembly, Third Committee

The scale of maternal mortality dwarfs the number of ‘disappearances’ and death penalty cases. Yet ‘disappearances’ and death penalty cases attract much more attention from the human rights community than preventable maternal mortality. ‘Disappearances’, for example, have a UN human rights ‘special procedure’, as well as international and regional human rights treaties. And so they should. ‘Dis...

National tuberculosis advisory committee 2012 committee report.

The National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC) was established in 1999 as a subcommittee of Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA). The terms of reference of NTAC are: • to provide strategic, expert advice to CDNA on a coordinated national and international approach to Tuberculosis (TB) control; and • to develop and review nationally agreed strategic and implementation plans for th...

Porritt Committee Report Published

cases and we recommend that a psychiatric unit should be attached to the area hospital though we recognise the need for beds elsewhere for patients requiring continuing treatment. The treatment of mentally confused old people has now improved so much that the treatment of these patients in geriatric units should he encouraged. 124. Arrangements should be made f?r all mental patients on the admi...