In brief.

This section offers news briefs related to public health and medicine in Great Britain as of September 2010, which include the publication of an updated guidance on the care of patients with chronic leg ulcers by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, a report on the economic impact of the failure of the National Health Service (NHS) to provide cost-effective surgical treatment for morbid obesity, and the launch of three-digit non-emergency number pilot in the North East of England.