UK non‐medical CD prescribing law: permissive or restrictive?

Nonmedical prescribing in the United kingdom: developments and stakeholder interests.

This article reflects upon the introduction of nonmedical prescribing in the United Kingdom and describes the historical developments within the National Health Service over the last 2 decades, together with an assessment of the impact of this prescribing for various stakeholders, drawing upon relevant research. We argue that a number of issues are associated with the introduction and developme...

Innovation in UK Law

I n 2 0 0 6 t h e N P I A ( t h e n k n o w n a s Po l i c e I T O r g a n i s a t i o n ) p r o v i d e d f u n d i n g f o r a p i l o t p h a s e o f t h e t e c h n o l o g y, e n a b l i n g t h e f o r c e t o e s t a b l i s h a f o r m a l p r o j e c t . M o r e r e c e n t l y, i n 2 0 0 7 , t h e U K g o v e r n m e n t m a n d a t e d m o b i l e d e v i c e s b e c o m e a f o c u ...

Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion after Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND Whether a restrictive threshold for hemoglobin level in red-cell transfusions, as compared with a liberal threshold, reduces postoperative morbidity and health care costs after cardiac surgery is uncertain. METHODS We conducted a multicenter, parallel-group trial in which patients older than 16 years of age who were undergoing nonemergency cardiac surgery were recruited from 17 cen...

Obstructive? Restrictive? Or a ventilatory impairment?

Since 1991, the guidelines for interpretation of lung function tests endorsed by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) have recommended that the presence of airflow obstruction be determined by a reduction in the ratio of FEV1 to FVC (or vital capacity), but that the severity of the obstructive impairment be indicated by the reduction in FEV1 itself, expressed as a percent of its predicted value ...

antibiotic prescribing review: rational or irrational therapy?