Evaluation of equity in diabetes health care in relation to African and Caribbean ethnicity.

Objective: Many US studies have shown that ethnic minority groups have less access to health care. We evaluated whether black African and black Caribbean people with diabetes in the UK gain access to diabetes health care on an equitable basis compared with white people.

Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey set in 29 general practices in south London.

Beware the BCG failures: a review of one institution's results.

Objective: To review the outcome of all superficial transitional cell (TCC) bladder cancer treated with intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) at one institution and, in particular, the prognosis for those patients who gained little benefit from BCG therapy.

Patients And Methods: The notes of 122 patients treated with BCG over a nine-year period were reviewed. The following details were recorded: time of diagnosis; time of decision to treat with BCG; results of cystoscopies before and after BCG; duration of follow up; time of progression if occurred, mortality and cause of death.