countrywide unrest and riots ... Red evolutionists ... denounce the props of an old static society... Britain now stands teetering on the brink of collapse or so it seems to the gentry. . .". Yet Charles Darwin was one of the gentry, and his letters do not mention any of this, not even the "red evolutionists". Can it be that the authors have gone over the top and are imposing their own view rat...

healthcare takes place at all levels of the National Health Service. However, these inevitable rationing decisions are taken by clinicians, politicians and bureaucrats, but with no direct say from patients or the public. Those who both fund the system, and stand to gain or lose the most from the way it works, therefore have no powers to hold it directly accountable. The potentially disastrous e...

BOOK REVIEWS Britain's National Health Service: The Doctors' Dilemmas ... . . . . . . . . Briefing: Federal Court Affirms Pro-Laetrile Ruling; British Scientist Sues over Clone Book; Want the Men to Pass ERA? Grab Them by Their Genes; DuPont Finally Relinquishes Drug Institute Post ............ Biological Warfare Fears May Impede Last Goal of Smallpox Eradicators ..... Budget-Cutting Mood in Co...

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

In 1974 the Medical Research Council's blood transfusion research committee expressed its concern at the continued inability of the UK transfusion services to meet the blood product needs of patients with haemophilia.' This view was reiterated in 1977 by Dr Rosemary Biggs, on behalf of the haemophilia centre directors, and concern was also expressed at the predicted rapid rise in demand, the hi...

Correspondence to: Professor Cyril Chander, Dean's Office, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas's Street, London SEI 9RT. Background The crisis abbut the funding of the N ped slowly over the decade after th tion of strict control over public exp 1976 as part of the terms of a loa International Monetary Fund to government.2 Initially, inflation cai awards over the cash limit was corrc subsequent year, but ...

Introduction The Government White Paper on the National Health Service' has reviewed past achievements and the present situation of the medical services available to the community, and has put forward ideas for improved amenities which should be established. As far as the tuberculosis services are concerned, it has crystallised some ideas that many of us have held and, in some cases, endeavoure...