In this paper, we analyse the way in which social work, as a profession, has coped with and responded to the various forms of regulation to which it has been subject in England. First, we briefly detail the rise of external regulation of the professions, discussing both the rationale for, and criticisms of, such developments. Second, we take a closer look at developments within social work and ...

IN 1983 the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners launched its quality initiative' with the following aims: (1) each general practitioner should describe his or her work and should be able to say what services his or her practice provides for patients and; (2) each general practitioner should define specific objectives for the care of his or her patients and should monitor the e...

a Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK b Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London SE5 9RJ, UK c Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK d Medical Re...

This article is the result of a meeting of the National Council on Potassium in Clinical Practice. The Council, a multidisciplinary group comprising specialists in cardiology, hypertension, epidemiology, pharmacy, and compliance, was formed to examine the critical role of potassium in clinical practice. The goal of the Council was to assess the role of potassium in terms of current medical prac...

length with the Bill then pending before the Bengal Legislative Council to amend the Bengal Medical Act and with the criticisms of the Bill put forward by the Bengal Medical Association. We pointed out that the functions of the Bengal Council of Medical Registration, like those of the General Medical Council of Great Britain, fell into three categories:?(1) to maintain the medical register, (2)...

In addition to decreasing feeding costs, improving the efficiency of utilization of N directly addresses the general concern regarding the environmental footprint of animal production. Excretion of N, especially urinary, may become a potential source of water and air pollution, the latter as N2O, a green-house gas, or as small particulate aerosols having a negative effect on air quality [smog; ...

THERE is a wealth of information available on alternative feeding programs for broilers, layers and turkeys, the basis of which has always been the various National Research Council (NRC) publications. The most recent such publication is Nutrient Requirements of Poultry, Ninth Revised Edition, released in 1994, and so unfortunately this information is now 17 years old, which is a considerable t...

In 2007, the National Research Council (NRC) completed its first decadal survey for Earth science at the request of NASA, NOAA, and USGS.[1] The Lidar Surface Topography (LIST) mission is one of fifteen missions recommended by NRC, whose primary objectives are to map global topography and vegetation structure at 5 m spatial resolution, and to acquire global surface height mapping within a few y...

Missing data have seriously compromised inferences from clinical trials, yet the topic has received little attention in the clinical-trial community.1 Existing regulatory guidances2-4 on the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials have little specific advice on how to address the problem of missing data. A recent National Research Council (NRC) report5 on the topic seeks to address thi...