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The 1991 census for England and Wales provides substantial amount of data on demography, ethnicity housing tenure, employment status, and other social factors for geographical areas ranging in size from [...]

Objective--To examine the relation between the risk of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and proximity of residence to nuclear installations in England and Wales. Design--Observed and expected numbers of cases [...]

Abstract Objective--To identify characteristics of people likely to be unaware of their HIV infection before diagnosis of AIDS defining disease. Design--Survey of continuing surveillance of voluntarily reported AIDS cases. Subjects--4127 [...]

The new rules and recommendations for community care come into force on 1 April. Two previous articles in this series described the reforms which the new law expects[1 2]: the [...]

Abstract Objectives--To ascertain all cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in England and Wales during 1985-91 and to determine the source of infection in each case. Design--Descriptive study of cases reported between [...]

Haemophilus influenzae type b is responsible for various invasive infections including meningitis, epiglottitis, pneumonia, and septic arthritis which predominantly occur in children under 5 years of age. In recent years [...]

Abstract Objectives To examine the incidence of suicides due to co-proxamol compared with tricyclic antidepressants and paracetamol, and to compare fatality rates for self poisonings with these drugs. Design Analysis [...]

A new mental health strategy for Wales, designed to improve services at all levels, has been launched by the Welsh Assembly. The strategy, whose aims include tailoring treatment to individual [...]

Among the oldest words of any language are the names of rivers and mountains. In Western Europe these are commonly from the ancient Celtic language from which Welsh is derived. [...]

Wales sets out health plan: The Welsh Assembly's health targets for 2003-4 include increasing the number of doctors in training by 65%. See www.planforwales. [...]

Radical changes in the way that NHS resources are allocated are being planned for Wales. Proposals for a new formula that would allocate money to different areas according to the […]

A GP who was investigated over the death of a patient has been found dead at the foot of 70 metre high cliffs on the Gower peninsula in south Wales. [...]

Wales's Plaid Cymru party wants better funding for the NHS, more doctors and nurses, more beds, and a reduction in waiting lists. It wants a third medical school campus in [...]

Pharmacists in Wales are bracing themselves for a big increase in business following a decision by the National Assembly for Wales to scrap prescription charges for people younger than 25. [...]

NHS trusts in Wales and the National Assembly have been told that they need to improve controls over locum doctors, including an accreditation scheme. An Audit Commission review has found [...]

General practitioners generate many clinical questions during consultations.[1 2] However, when they seek answers to these queries they tend to rely on colleagues and 'desk top' references rather than searching [...]

Ann Lloyd has been appointed the new NHS director in Wales. Her appointment means that women now occupy all four top positions in health and social care in the principality. [...]

All five health authorities in Wales are to be scrapped as part of a radical reorganisation of the NHS in the principality by the Welsh Assembly. Under the plans, the [...]

Some 15m £ ($21m) a year in prescription charges is being lost to the NHS in Wales by patients wrongly claiming exemptions from charges. Auditors have found that in 9% [...]

A rise in the suicide rate in England and Wales followed the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, three years ago, a new study shows. The University of Oxford Centre [...]

EDITOR--Contact rates for out of hours services are greater in Wales than in England and Scotland. Statistics gathered by two south Wales cooperatives based in Gwent and Neath Port Talbot [...]

A quarter of adult male prisoners have injected drugs, and 6% reject while in prison, according to a national survey of risk behaviours for transmission of bloodborne viruses among prisoners [...]

EDITOR--Yamey reports on the decline in suicide rates among men and women in England and Wales in the 1990s.[1] Suicide rates in Scotland diverged from those in England and Wales [...]

A 30 point strategy for health promotion in Wales has been launched by the Welsh assembly. Its launch comes amid concern about health problems and inequalities in the principality. There [...]

The Royal College of Surgeons has said it was unaware that a senior urologist it appointed to help investigate how the wrong, healthy kidney was removed from a patient in [...]

Elective surgery in most hospitals in Wales was cancelled this week as influenza rates in the principality reached the highest recorded level for more than a decade. The BMA in [...]

Critical care services in England and Wales are often inefficiently managed and poorly researched, concludes a report from the Audit Commission. The annual cost of critical care in England and [...]

Interactive effects and causation must be considered Editor--From their modelling of mortality data Sasieni and Adams estimated the number of deaths from cervical cancer prevented as a result of screening? [...]

The Welsh Office is to carry out an investigation into the four year suspension of consultant pathologist Bernard Charnley. Dr Charnley, who was Britain's longest suspended consultant, and North Glamorgan [...]

The Mental Health Act 1983 provides legislation to ensure a consistent and comprehensive approach to the compulsory admission of psychiatric patients in England and Wales. Since the introduction of the [...]

Dealing with the health inequalities in Wales is top of the agenda for Jane Hutt, the newly appointed Welsh Assembly secretary for health and social services. Labour, the biggest party [...]

Sexual health is an essential component of general health and includes the avoidance of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Unintended pregnancies are associated with increased risk of poor social, [...]

The number of women dying from cervical cancer in 1997 was 7% lower than in 1996 and has fallen by over 25% since 1992.[1] Such rapid change must be at [...]

Summary points The new assemblies for Scotland and Wales face major challenges tackling socioeconomic and health inequalities Primary legislation for Wales will be made in Westminster. Scotland will have primary [...]