Objective: To investigate differences between hospitals in clinical management of patients
admitted with fractured hip and to relate these to mortality at 90 days. Design: A prospective
audit of process and outcome of care based on interviews with patients, abstraction from
records with standard proforma, and follow up at three months. Data were analysed with
{chi} 2 test and forward stepwise regression modelling of mortality. Setting: All eight
hospitals in East Anglia with trauma orthopaedic departments. Patients: 580 consecutive …

I applied in August 1993 for a place on the scheme as a part time senior registrar in gastro-
enterology. I was interviewed and had been granted manpower approval by April 1994, but
no places were available for flexible senior registrars in gastroenterology then. In November,
still awaiting manpower approval, I applied to the Royal College of Physicians' adviser for
flexible training, and in January 1995 manpower approval was granted. By this time my
family and I had moved to a different region, and I then had to wait for another interview with …