NHS is not ready for a 48 hour working week

Training for the future NHS: training junior doctors in the United Kingdom within the 48-hour European working time directive

Since August 2009, the National Health Service of the United Kingdom has faced the challenge of delivering training for junior doctors within a 48-hour working week, as stipulated by the European Working Time Directive and legislated in the UK by the Working Time Regulations 1998. Since that time, widespread concern has been expressed about the impact of restricted duty hours on the quality of ...

ARITY ANALYSIS (Working Notes Only, Not Ready for Publication Yet)

Virtually every compiler performs transformations on the program it is compiling in an attempt to improve efficiency. However, a transformation known as “lambda floating” has not received much attention in the past. In this paper we describe an analysis on the arity of a function which determines the number of lambdas that can be floated out. We give detailed measurements of the effect in an op...

Morality not Markets: A Manifesto for the NHS; Response to Pollock, Frith, and Cox

Counterpoint: clinical neuroscience is not ready for clinical use.

Radical proposals are being made to change the practice, teaching and research basis of psychiatry to that of clinical neuroscience. Such changes would affect practice via what is studied, published, recommended as standard treatment and what is decided in medico-legal forums. These proposed changes are very premature and misguided. Here, I refute these proposals.

Peanut oral immunotherapy is not ready for clinical use.

Hippocrates wrote that ‘‘The physician must . . . have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm’’ (Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics, Bk I, Sect 5). As physicians, we are continually challenged with the task of weighing the possible risks and benefits of treatment against those of taking no action. Similarly, we pursue clinical investigation when exist...