Medical eye centres.

Regional postgraduate medical centres.

We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...

IT-Based Virtual Medical Centres and Structures

Today, medical infrastructures are subject to organisational change the world over. The reasons for this are manifold. On the one hand, it can be observed through scientific innovation and gaining of knowledge that a more in-depth specialisation is taking place, which means that medical healthcare providers are able to offer in-depth knowledge in narrowing fields. On the other hand, through inc...

Postgraduate Medical Education Centres in Northern Ireland.

PROFESSIONAL training, with its ever-spreading ripples from undergraduate to postgraduate to continuing education of family doctors and consultants, has come to be recognised as the essential core of good medicine. Sir George Godber, who retired at the end of November 1973 from his appointment as Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health and Social Security, has stated that the postgrad...

Walk-in primary medical care centres: lessons from Canada.

Objective To compare rates of local reactions associated with two needle sizes used to administer routine immunisations to infants. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Routine immunisation clinics in eight general practices in Buckinghamshire. Participants Healthy infants attending for third primary immunisation due at 16 weeks of age: 119 infants were recruited, and 110 diary cards were

Medical Research Council. Medical Uses of Radium: Summary of Reports from Research Centres for 1935