NHS is told to save £2.2bn by being more efficient

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Recent successful endovascular stroke trials have provided unequivocal support for these therapies in selected patients with large-vessel occlusive acute ischemic stroke. In this piece, we briefly review these trials and their utilization of advanced neuroimaging techniques that played a pivotal role in their success through targeted patient selection. In this context, the unique challenges and...

Getting Told and Being Believed

Interactive Acquisition of Justifications: Learning “Why” by Being Told “What”*

In this paper I describe an approach to automated knowledge acquisition in which users specify desired system behavior by constructing justifications of examples. Justifications are explanations of why example behaviors are appropriate in given situations. I analyze the problem of acquiring justifications, showing how current knowledge acquisition techniques are best suited for asking what-ques...

Bring Hippocrates to the people and save the NHS.

When Jeremy Hunt decided to take his children to A&E rather than wait for a GP appointment, or indeed, rather than making use of the out-of-hours GP service, he defended his decision with a speech that included an incredibly bleak assessment of the British people. His declaration that people could no longer tell what is urgent and what is not is tantamount to describing the population as a mass...

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As firms switch from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans, employees bear more responsibility for making decisions about how much to save. The employees who fail to join the plan, or who participate at a very low level, appear to be saving at less than the predicted lifecycle savings rates. Behavioral explanations for this behavior stress bounded rationality and self-control and ...