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The Westminster Government in the UK has implemented a series of significant changes to the way social care is organised and provided in England, including the use of personal budgets and direct payments. Advocates of this approach claim it will deliver more personalised care to budget holders. This paper examines key English policies underpinning these changes, reviewing social policy analysis and research evidence of their impact to consider implications for older social care users. It suggests that personal budgets and direct payments have partly been a response to demands for greater control over care from younger adults with disabilities and that policies and guidance often reflect the interests of this constituency rather than older people. Current research evidence tends to suggest that older people achieve less satisfactory outcomes from personal budgets than younger people. The paper argues for the re-discovery of person-centred care, rather than personalisation, as a way of addressing this important policy issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: This paper presents a risk assessment exercise applied to 1,3-butadiene, a probable carcinogenic agent, in the context of the activity of the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL) of the European Commission. Data on cumulative exposures and relative risks for leukaemia in humans were derived from the open literature., Methods: A variety of excess relative risk models were applied taking into consideration, in a life-table fashion, mortality from leukaemia by age., Results: As an example of the outcome of the method, results are presented for a 1 ppm exposure (each year) lasting for a working lifetime. They show that in a population of 1,000 adult males experiencing mortality rates similar to those of the 1981 male population of England and Wales, occupational exposure to 1 ppm of 1,3-butadiene for each year of a working life (40 years between the age of 20 and 65) will cause from 0 to 7.1 extra leukaemia deaths between the age 20-85 years, in addition to the 5.1 leukaemia deaths expected to occur in the absence of exposure to 1,3-butadiene. A summary of the estimates, in terms of excess leukaemia deaths, obtained for 0.1 ppm, 0.2 ppm, 0.5 ppm, 1.0 ppm, 2.0 ppm, 5.0 ppm, and 10 ppm of exposure (each year) is also presented., Conclusions: The method can be applied to predict the risk of carcinogenic agents for which dose-response data exist and no health-based limit value can be established. Results are consistent with those of previous risk assessments based on similar assumptions

The paper analyses Bacon's views of life, as contained in De Sapientia Veterum, Historia vitae et mortis, and in a newly published manuscript, entitled De vijs mortis. Bacon saw the prolongation of life as one of the main goals of science and medicine, According to him, life is the result of the action of spirits on matter. In order to preserve life, it is necessary to investigate various kinds of generation, notably, those which occurr without seeds. The study of putrefaction is also crucial for the prolongation of life.

In spite of continued improvement in the production of artificial tissues, there are still many instances where replacement of the damaged part by a natural tissue grafts would be preferable. It is to satisfy this requirement that tissue banding has been developed. In this paper a brief description of the preparation of tissue grafts currently being carried out in the Yorkshire Regional Tissue Bank is given and the philosophy of tissue banking from a financial and scientifical point of view is explained.