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And to enhance your bedtime reading still further, Barbara Phillips' Working Party report has also just been released looking at current arrangements for A&E services for children and young people, making recommendations for future provision of these services, addressing consequent training issues and considering an inter-collegiate advisory structure. Any skimmed it so far, but they want a complete separation of adult and child waiting and facilities, a play area supervised by a play specialist, sufficient RSCNs to ensure that one such nurse is on duty at all times children are nursed and each department must recruit a Consultant who has undertaken a recognised training programme in paediatric A&E medicine. Only A&E departments that are on the same site as inpatient paediatric facilities should accept children except those with trivial injury. A ward taking direct admissions must have an emergency room with facilities for reception, triage and resuscitation appropriately equipped and staffed 24 hours a day. Best wishes, Rowley Cottingham [log in to unmask] There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%