One of the most successful areas for the application of system dynamics has been project management. Measured in terms of new system dynamics theory, new and improved model structures, number of applications, number of practitioners, value of consulting revenues, and value to clients, “project dynamics” stands as an example of success in the field. This paper reviews the history of project mana...

A 15 month campaign by a primary health care team in Stockton on Tees raised the uptake of preventive care of its patients in a severely deprived area to a level generally exceeding that of a more endowed neighbouring community. This was achieved by opportunistic attention after unrelated consultations, writing twice to each household with a list of its outstanding items necessary for preventiv...

Formal notations such as Z provide powerful support for writing clear specifications, and for undertaking proofs of properties of those specifications. In this paper, we explore one particular style of specification, with applications in control theory and real-time specification. The notation we define permits the accurate description of concepts in these fields without significant overhead or...

In this age of anxiety, pain control and sedation have become important aspects of dental care. It is now becoming more common for general practitioners to provide in-office sedation for routine dental procedures. A segment of the population that would otherwise not seek care because of fear or anxiety is now receiving treatment. The use of sedation for dental care has become a topic of intense...

AE carried out this study while a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. We thank the Department of Health for providing us with the data on the NHS workforce. Contributors: AE planned the study, carried out the analysis, and wrote the paper and acts as guarantor. HD collected the data from the various reports and prepared them for analysis. SE initiated the idea and participated...

Benson and Thistlethwaite are general practitioners who have written an introductory yet thorough practical guide on mental health to assist all health professionals working in multicultural contexts. While some book introductions (Chapter 1) can be quite tedious, theirs is quite fascinating as it provides some examples of their personal and professional cross cultural experience with refugees ...

Phenylbutazone was introduced into therapeutics in 1949: it rapidly became popular, and latterly, in Great Britain alone, general practitioners have been writing between 3 and 4 million prescriptions for it each year; quantities used in hospitals are unknown. Toxic effects include agranulocytosis, reactivation of peptic ulcers, rashes, vomiting, diarrhoea, and jaundice. The Dunlop Committee on ...

This paper extends foundational perspectives on the definition of Writing Analytics (WA) to further conceptualize this nascent field of research. The affordances of digital tools have enabled us to reimagine WA's meanings and applications. The authors use the metaphor of mapping to understand the tensions and successes navigated by researchers and practitioners and to chart new ways in which th...

Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) has been enormously successful. Within little more than a decade hundreds of papers have reported successful applications of PSO. In fact, there are so many of them, that it is difficult for PSO practitioners and researchers to have a clear up-to-date vision of what has been done in the area of PSO applications. This brief paper attempts to fill this gap, by ca...