This is a book for the general practitioner, and an admirable one at that. The author is not only pathologist to the London Lock Hospitals, but also in charge of the venereal department at St. George's Hospital, and of the venereal blocks at the Rochester Row and Grove Military Hospitals. The book is therefore authoritative, whilst it is also very instructive and its price is cheap. The book op...

Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; Duke University Medical Center and VA Medical Centers, Durham, North Carolina; National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland; University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; and Task Force on Cancer and Aging, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

of provident contributions, in which it has invited the co-operation of the Hospital Saturday Fund. The Fund is also preparing a general scheme for a combined appeal. These new tasks have led to a reorganisation, whereby the new numerous functions of the Fund will be allotted to Committees, the chairmen of which will meet regularly on the Committee of Management. Since January 1, the duties hit...

Ian Hinitt, deputy estates director at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and project director of an ambitious "ultra fast-track" modular ward development at Bradford Royal Infirmary, describes the numerous challenges in getting the building completed in just six months, extolling the virtues of Partnering and Framework Agreements and a systems approach to project managing ultra-...