Impasse over patient consent may delay NHS computerisation

Emergency Medicine specialty May Improve Patient Satisfaction

The Law of Patient Consent

In 1992, the High Court of Australia handed down a decision on consent to medical treatment. The case had widespread media publicity, and caused consternation among many members of the medical profession. This article explains the law on consent to treatment by health practitioners and considers the relevance of the law for chiropractors and osteopaths.

Nurses win tribunal over unfair NHS shifts.

EMPLOYERS ACROSS the UK are expected to review the demands they place on staff following a landmark employment tribunal victory last week by nurses Christine Clunie and Alison Hale.

The Agricultural Impasse.

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Digitised Mathematics: Computerisation vs. Formalisation

In only few decades, computers have changed the way we approach documents. Throughout history, mathematicians and philosophers had clarified the relationship between mathematical thoughts and their textual and symbolic representations. We discuss here the consequences of computerbased formalisation for mathematical authoring habits and we present an overview of our approach for computerising ma...