BACKGROUND AND AIM The impact of any injury prevention programme is a function of the programme and its implementation. However, real world implementation of injury prevention programmes is challenging. Lower limb injuries (LLIs) are common in community Australian football (community-AF) and it is likely that many could be prevented by implementing exercise-based warm-up programmes for players....

Being a nurse today and striving for 100% job satisfaction while ensuring a patient's well-being is not an easy task in the current changing and challenging environment. However, careful planning might be the key to success. This article focuses on 'How to Plan' and gives some practical tips for nurses in their daily work. The article then offers three case stories of renal units that have deve...

The Memory Services National Accreditation Programme states that memory services should provide "timely access to assessment and diagnosis" of dementia. We undertook a quality improvement project using Plan-Do-Study-Act methodology to improve patient access to an inner city memory service. This report focuses on the third Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle where, in 2012, we aimed to shorten the time from...

Nodding syndrome has affected and led to the deaths of children between the ages of 5 and 15 in Northern Uganda since 2009. There is no reliable explanation of the disease, and currently the only treatment is through a nutritional programme of vitamins, combined with medication to prevent symptoms. In the absence of a proper medical treatment, we develop a dynamic compartmental model to plan th...

Using stochastic modelling, we demonstrate that the best investment strategy for the accumulation phase of a defined contribution pension plan is one that limits the range of returns that are credited to the plan member's account. In particular, we show that with-profit accumulation programmes which make use of a smoothing fund to smooth out returns over time dominate unit-linked accumulation p...

1. Background In 1949 malaria was the leading cause of death with over 38,000 deaths, a rate of 201.5 per 100,000 population. The only two control measures being available were drug distribution and mosquito protection. A WHO-UNICEF Malaria Control Demonstration Project was conducted in a northern province. During the same period the Thai Government established similar projects in other areas. ...