An evaluation of two Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics in central Lancashire, UK.

Aim: The aim of the project was to assess critically, using Maxwell's six dimensions, the quality of the services provided by the two Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (RACPCs) in Central Lancashire.

Methods: Data on the actual use of the clinic was obtained from the two RACPCs. A record linkage exercise between the database of patients from the RACPC and HES/mortality data was performed.

Evidence-based standards of care for adults with epilepsy-a literature review.

Epilepsy is the most common serious chronic neurological condition. All patients with epilepsy regardless of location should receive the highest quality of services that can be provided. In order to do this current service provision has to be reviewed and bench marked against ideal standards of service provision that cover a comprehensive range of services to meet all patient needs.

A review of the specialties that care for inpatient burns and smoke inhalation in the English counties of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Prevention is by far the best strategy to minimise the burden of burns and smoke inhalation injuries on public health. However, it is inevitable that some injuries will occur despite the best attempts to prevent them. We must, therefore, optimise treatment in order to restore individuals to the best possible condition.

The epidemiology of burns and smoke inhalation in secondary care: a population-based study covering Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The epidemiology of burns and smoke inhalation in secondary care, for the population (1.6 million) of the four U.K.