Objectives The number of doctors directly entering UK specialty training after their foundation
year 2 (F2) has steadily declined from 83% in 2010 to 42.6% in 2017. The year following F2…

In the UK, patients admitted to hospital as acute medical emergencies are reviewed by a
consultant physician within 12–24 hours of admission. This occurs on a post-take ward round …

A cross-sectional survey of an age- and sex-stratified random sample of the elderly population
living in Southampton was undertaken with the object of measuring the frequency of …

Carotid artery massage was carried out in a cross‐section of 95 healthy elderly subjects (51
men and 44 woman, mean age of 74 years) to assess the heart rate response and …

Carcinoid tumours are one of the group of neuroendocrine rumours rarely seen in clinical
practice. At St Wilfrid's Hospice, an independent specialist palliative care unit covering a …

The number of medical admissions to hospital is increasing inexorably year-on-year. Pressure
to develop strategies that either avoid or alleviate the effects of this trend has lead to the …

The authors discuss the outcomes of four pilot foundation programmes in terms of the
trainees' experience, that of their educational supervisors and ask what made foundation …

All physicians who are training young doctors of the future recognise the current challenge of
doing this in the NHS. The recently published Temple Report documents the challenge and …

286 Palliative and end-of-life care for patients with chronic heart failure and chronic lung
disease Miriam J Johnson and Sara Booth 290 Palliative and end-of-life care in advanced …

Venous malformations (VMs) are painful and deforming vascular lesions composed of dilated
vascular channels, which are present from birth. Mutations in the TEK gene, encoding the …