Injury and Trauma
Unrelieved Pain in Palliative Care in England
1 September 2019
In England, an estimated 378,427 people receive palliative care each year in a range of specialised and generalised services. Overall, the quality of palliative care in England and the wider UK is widely regarded as excellent. However, despite the generally high level of care, many patients receiving palliative care die in pain every year.
Why are Mortality Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Non-Hispanic Americans? Could it Happen in Europe?
1 March 2018
Low levels of mortality are important indicators of societal success. This lecture is about trends in mortality in the white non-Hispanic population in the United States…
Causes of Death: A Study of a Century of Change in England and Wales
1 October 2012
This Briefing extends to 2007 Thomas McKeown’s well-known analysis of changes in life expectancy in England during 1901-1971. It finds that mortality continued to decline after 1971,…
Dying with Dignity
1 February 1991
This report from the Office of Health Economics looks at a very important aspect of medical care which is too often ignored. As Jane Griffin points…
Adverse Reactions and the Community
1 November 1982
Conference of Scottish Pharmacists, Aviemore, 21 November 1982. The aim is to do two things. First, to put the experience with benoxaprofen into a broader and…
Accidents in childhood
1 September 1981
During the last 30 years the proportion of deaths occurring in childhood caused by accidents has risen from 21 to 30 per cent. This development is…
Disability in Britain – The Process of Transition
1 July 1981
Following a proposal originally made by the representative of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided late in 1976 that 1981…
Accidents
1 November 1978
On each day in 1976 in England and Wales approximately forty-one people died and thousands more were either severely or slightly injured as a result of…
Physical Impairment: Social Handicap
1 November 1977
Britain’s one and a half million physically handicapped people do not form a homogeneous group. It is wrong to regard them as a discrete section of…