The survival of children in the South East Thames region, born between 1970 and 1979 and diagnosed as having some form of cerebral palsy was investigated. Of the 732 children studied, 651 (90%) are still alive, and hence cerebral palsy must be regarded as a condition with which people live rather than a condition of which they die. Survival varies considerably among the different diagnostic gro...

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Accepted for publication 10 September 1996 Introduction For the past few years, the United States has been engaged in a public policy debate about how to reform the healthcare system to assure access to care while cost containment. Underlying the deliberations is a concern that quality and cost containment are a trade off that is, that efforts to contain costs inevitably result in lower quality...

A hundred million pounds is a lot of money. NHS England has pledged to spend as much as this on recruitment agency fees to bring in GPs from abroad. The aim is for 5000 extra GPs. Overseas recruitment will make up a large portion of this new wave of doctors. In the 1960s, general practice in the NHS was saved by Indian and Pakistani doctors, at a time when a third to a half of UK medical gradua...

The goal of this work is to develop a theory of mind that enables common sense reasoning to be applied in M. M was designed to observe situations and formulate beliefs about these situations regardless of the truth of the beliefs. It appears that humans observe and believe, and then over time continue to improve their knowledge of their beliefs while many types of computer programs just get stu...