Government pushes ahead with plan for cheaper drugs deal for NHS

UK government spells out new plan for NHS in England.

1329 Nigel Hawkes LONDON GP commissioning consortiums in England will be obliged to include two lay members, a hospital specialist, and a nurse on their boards, the government has announced. Their name will be changed from GP or GP led consortiums to “clinical commissioning groups,” and they will be required to meet in public and publish their minutes. To avoid conflicts of interest the nurse a...

Cheaper HIV/AIDS drugs coming.

The NHS plan and clinicians.

The NHS Plan issued in July 2000 is being implemented and is fundamentally trying to modernise the NHS using new organisational arrangements. At its heart is the desire to make the NHS more responsive to what the public wants and sensitive to individuals' needs and rights. National clinical priorities and targets have been identified, including emergency care, time to elective treatment, cancer...

Does anyone understand the government's plan for the NHS?

Time-Projection control on 3LP, a simple idea to deal with intermittent pushes online

In this article, we propose a new controller for recovering intermittent pushes during bipedal locomotion. We use 3LP as a template model which can provide closed-form solutions for state evolution. The idea behind our controller is to project the perturbed state of current time-step back to the beginning of the hybrid phase, use the expertise of a discrete controller and then apply the resulti...