1.   Another possible contributory factor is the increasing difficulty in admitting acutely ill patients.

2.   Any seriously ill patients are usually sent to a state hospital.

3.   Chronically ill patients often find it difficult to get travel insurance.

4.   Computerisation allows doctors to expand their largely reactive role of sitting in the surgery waiting for ill patients to come to them.

5.   Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.

6.   Doctors have been given permission to implant five mechanical hearts in patients too ill to qualify for a live organ transplant.

7.   It will be the first journal to make immediately available findings that could save or extend the lives of critically ill patients.

8.   Mentally ill patients have the same rights as anyone else.

9.   Mentally ill patients will be under the care of a psychiatrist.

10.   Secondly, transport of such critically ill patients to regional referral centres should be considered and discussed early in the clinical course.