BACKGROUND Nurses in genitourinary medicine (GUM) services are progressively extending their roles to conduct "comprehensive care" nurse led clinics. In such roles the nurse coordinates the first line, comprehensive care of patients presenting with sexual health conditions and issues. OBJECTIVES To identify and describe comprehensive care nurse led clinics in GUM services across England. ME...

Since the dawn of civilization, human race has been fascinated towards technology. People remained in constant search technological solutions to problems day-to-day life. This inquisitiveness proved be bedrock great innovations world. Social messaging apps are one most important innovations, that brought a drastic change world communication and life simultaneously. The journey communication, wh...

This proposal aims to combine the best properties of paperbased and end-to-end verifiable remote voting systems. Ballots are delivered electronically to voters, who return their votes on paper together with some cryptographic information that allows them to verify later that their votes were correctly included and counted. We emphasise the ease of the voter’s experience, which is not much harde...

OBJECTIVE To examine the status of obstetric epidural analgesia services in Hong Kong public hospitals in 2001, and to compare findings with those from a similar survey conducted in 1995. DESIGN Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING Hospital Authority hospitals in Hong Kong offering an obstetric and delivery service. PARTICIPANTS Chiefs of Service of departments of anaesthesia and coordina...

OBJECTIVE To establish the current and predicted distribution of formal emergency nurse practitioner services in major accident and emergency departments in the United Kingdom; to determine organisational variations in service provision, with specific reference to funding, role configuration, training, and scope of clinical activity. METHODS Postal survey of senior nurses of all major acciden...