From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

The NHS at 60: vulnerable but full of ideas
J R Soc Med 101(7): 327; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008/08k002 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Donald Irvine

Medical professionalism in 60 years of the NHS
J R Soc Med 101(7): 328-329; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8001 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin N Marshall

Doctors, managers and the battle for quality
J R Soc Med 101(7): 330-331; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8005 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Smith

The NHS: ‘losing my religion’
J R Soc Med 101(7): 332-333; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8002 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Finlay Scott

The jigsaw of child protection
J R Soc Med 101(7): 334; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080106 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Motley and Lawrence M. Field

Morbidity from liposuction under general anaesthesia – ‘the elephant in the room’
J R Soc Med 101(7): 334; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080155 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Steve Field

NHS 60 – a GP's view
J R Soc Med 101(7): 335-337; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8007 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liam Donaldson

The challenge of quality and patient safety
J R Soc Med 101(7): 338-341; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8003 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham

Evidence-based medicine and the NHS: a commentary
J R Soc Med 101(7): 342-344; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8004 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor

The NHS at 60: the next 60 years
J R Soc Med 101(7): 345-349; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.nh8006 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Paul Clayton and Judith Rowbotham

An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part two: realities of the mid-Victorian diet
J R Soc Med 101(7): 350-357; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080113 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Joanna Cook and Susan Bewley

Acknowledging a persistent truth: domestic violence in pregnancy
J R Soc Med 101(7): 358-363; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Kayvan Shokrollahi, Sujatha Tadiparthi, and Sathish Jayagopal

How fast is fast enough? An audit and league table of response times of acute hospital NHS Trust switchboards in England
J R Soc Med 101(7): 364-371; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephen Morris, Bob Elliott, Ada Ma, Alex McConnachie, Nigel Rice, Diane Skåtun, and Matt Sutton

Analysis of consultants' NHS and private incomes in England in 2003/4
J R Soc Med 101(7): 372-380; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Data tables for Morris et al.]  

From the James Lind Library

Duncan Neuhauser, Mireya Diaz, and I Chalmers

A puzzling omission in a great medical textbook edited by a pioneer of controlled trials
J R Soc Med 101(7): 381-383; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Joanne Shaw

From petri dish to high-speed broadband: how the IT revolution is changing the NHS and how it works for patients
J R Soc Med 101(7): 384-385; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080164 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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