Gail Curran is Senior Vascular Research Nurse; Catherine Fisher is Vascular Research Nurse; Paul Hayes is Consultant Vascular Surgeon. All are at Cambridge University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge Vascular Unit, Cambridge. Ian Loftus is Consultant Vascular Surgeon; Leanne Sequeira is Vascular Research Nurse. Both are at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, Londo...

INTRODUCTION Plastic surgery is a frequently consulted service in most emergency departments (EDs). The inclusion of a digital image with a plastic surgery consultation would allow the consultant to immediately assess the severity of the condition and either provide instruction to ED staff if minor or mobilize resources to facilitate operative management if more severe. METHODS During a 4-mon...

Consultant-delivered care has been shown to improve outcomes for acute medical patients. However, the ideal composition of a medical team to support consultant-delivered care is not clear and little is known about the effect of continuing consultant-delivered care until the patient is discharged. Between December 2011 and April 2012, 260 general medical patients requiring inpatient care were ma...

In this paper, we analyse and seek to understand the complex relations that occur between clients and consultants during consulting projects. The paper uses ideas from Schön’s model of the “reflective practitioner” to propose a new model conceptualising the client-consultant team as a community of interpretive communities. We show that client and consultant belong to different interpretive comm...

OBJECTIVE Thoracoscopic (video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)) lobectomy is a safe and effective method for treating early-stage lung cancer. Despite this, it is still not widely practised, which could be due to a shallow learning curve. We have evaluated the surgical outcome in a training programme at an institution with an established VATS lobectomy programme. We present the surgical d...

Abstract Background Olorofim, the first orotomide antifungal, selectively inhibits fungal dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), a key enzyme in pyrimidine biosynthesis. Olorofim is active against Aspergillus (including azole-resistant and cryptic species), resistant moulds (e.g., Lomentospora prolificans, Scopulariopsis) dimorphic fungi Coccidioides). The drug given orally cleared by multiple C...

One of the most useful applications of natural language interface technology is the area of computer consultants. Computer consultants are programs which a user can ask for help about some topic. One of the easiest ways to interact with computer consultants is by typed English. These programs can give answers in English too. We hav e developed a computer consultant called OSCON (Operating Syste...

University of Cambridge J. Tudor, MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP, DMDR, FFR, Consultant Radiologist E. P. Wraight, PhD, DMRT, Consultant in Nuclear Medicine Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, England. A. J. Coakley, MB, ChB, MRCP, MSc, Consultant in Nuclear Medicine St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, England. Requests for reprints should be sent to Mr N. Rushton. ...