Out of the wasteland
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2011;342:d2358 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials

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	Antenatal corticosteroids in late preterm infants
	Devender Roberts
	BMJ  2011;342:d1614 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of self harm in adolescents
	David Brent
	BMJ  2011;342:d592 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Migration of doctors and the "fitness to practise" process
	Marcella Nunez-Smith
	BMJ  2011;342:d1641 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multidisciplinary palliative care in unborn and newborn babies
	Mark D Kilby, Samantha J Pretlove, Alison R Bedford Russell
	BMJ  2011;342:d1808 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	King’s Fund report on improving the quality of care in general practice
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  2011;342:d1932 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Tackling practice variation: Threats and opportunities of the NHS reforms
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2011;342:d2269 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling practice variation: How to do it
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  2011;342:d2285 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling practice variation: Lessons from variation can help change health policy
	Hugh C Rayner
	BMJ  2011;342:d2271 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical outcome data: Such data can benefit medicine as well as surgery
	John A Snowden, Derwood Pamphilon, Keiren Kirkland, Graham H Jackson
	BMJ  2011;342:d2276 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Food allergies in children: Don’t forget allergy in eczema
	Lucy E Durham
	BMJ  2011;342:d2294 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of intravenous lipids: Not yet in all overdoses with failed resuscitation
	Douglas B Murray, D Nicholas Bateman
	BMJ  2011;342:d2265 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

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	Death rate after bowel cancer surgery is higher than previously thought
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d2379 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unexplained variations in hospital admissions must be tackled, report says
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2011;342:d2380 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Government drops original pledge to boost physical exercise
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d2273 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	High Court backs trust’s refusal to make an exception to funding rules on social grounds
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d2354 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Journal withdraws article after complaints from drug manufacturers
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d2335 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity surgery data show success in tackling life threatening illnesses
	Adrian O'Dowd
	BMJ  2011;342:d2353 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In brief
	BMJ  2011;342:d2284 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bahraini government is misusing health system to deter protests, says charity
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2011;342:d2359 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preconception genetic testing should be more widely available, says UK commission
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2011;342:d2324 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Defence questions validity of evidence against cardiologist facing charges of sex abuse
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2011;342:d2350 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	European health ministers focus on migration of health workers
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2011;342:d2347 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Short Cuts

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	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2011;342:d2326 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

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	Interview: Even Stephen: is it Dorrell to the rescue?
	Nigel Hawkes
	BMJ  2011;342:d2221 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ Group Awards: Primary Care Team of the Year: Primary care that makes a difference
	Helen Macdonald, Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2011;342:d2118 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

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	Life and Death: Who’s complacent now? The King’s Fund on general practice
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2011;342:d2254 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

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	Challenges of EU competition law for general practice commissioning
	Rupert Dunbar-Rees, Robert McGough
	BMJ  2011;342:d2071 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

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	Transitions to palliative care in acute hospitals in England: qualitative study
	Merryn Gott, Christine Ingleton, Michael I Bennett, Clare Gardiner
	BMJ  2011;342:d1773 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Understanding provision of chemotherapy to patients with end stage cancer: qualitative interview study
	Hilde M Buiting, Mette L Rurup, Henri Wijsbek, Lia van Zuylen, Govert den Hartogh
	BMJ  2011;342:d1933 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of antenatal corticosteroids in reducing respiratory disorders in late preterm infants: randomised clinical trial
	Ana Maria Feitosa Porto, Isabela Cristina Coutinho, Jailson Barros Correia, Melania Maria Ramos Amorim
	BMJ  2011;342:d1696 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Group therapy for adolescents with repeated self harm: randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation
	J M Green, A J Wood, M J Kerfoot, G Trainor, C Roberts, J Rothwell, A Woodham, E Ayodeji, B Barrett, S Byford, R Harrington
	BMJ  2011;342:d682 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Place of medical qualification and outcomes of UK General Medical Council "fitness to practise" process: cohort study
	Charlotte Humphrey, Shaista Hickman, Martin C Gulliford
	BMJ  2011;342:d1817 (Published ) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical Review

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	Post-acute care and secondary prevention after ischaemic stroke
	K S McArthur, T J Quinn, P Higgins, P Langhorne
	BMJ  2011;342:d2083 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

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	Therapeutics: Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in hypertension
	J M Ritter
	BMJ  2011;342:d1673 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient's Journey: Through the wasteland: chronic depression
	Jackie Hopson, Jeremy Holmes
	BMJ  2011;342:d93 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

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	Peter Higgins
	Joanna Lyall
	BMJ  2011;342:d2365 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hazel Margaret Finlay
	Lesley Abbott
	BMJ  2011;342:d2222 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Kenneth Gordon Lowe
	Gordon Lowe, Graham Lowe, Hugh MacDougall
	BMJ  2011;342:d2208 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Afolabi Michael Sawyerr
	Hannah Sawyerr, Liz Carty
	BMJ  2011;342:d2214 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pamela Mary Spencer (née Bacon)
	Charles Spencer, Kathleen Thickett
	BMJ  2011;342:d2227 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rose Margaret Fraser Stellman
	Carole M Stellman
	BMJ  2011;342:d2204 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Robert Nicol Traquair Thin
	James Bingham
	BMJ  2011;342:d2068 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & Reviews

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	Personal View: Junior doctors don’t get enough teaching
	BMJ  2011;342:d2246 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: A chronology of cancer
	D Ross Camidge
	BMJ  2011;342:d2259 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: Hiding and hauntings
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2011;342:d2272 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: A Clockwork Orange
	David Ingle
	BMJ  2011;342:d1266 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Child of our time: how childhood now lasts a lifetime
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2011;342:d2341 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In and Out of Hospital: Come back, Mr Chips: the decline of men
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2011;342:d2274 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Endgames

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	Picture Quiz: Abdominal trauma
	Rhodri H Davies, Brian I Rees
	BMJ  2011;342:d882 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical Question: Analysis by intention to treat
	Philip Sedgwick
	BMJ  2011;342:d2212 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	onExamination Quiz: A child with an earache
	BMJ  2011;342:d2307 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

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	Aaron T W Ng, Tracey Irvine
	BMJ  2011;342:d2255 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ  2011;342:d2251 (Published ) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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