1.   Furthermore, health authorities could no longer discharge patients without an individual care plan being approved and agreed with the local authority.

2.   Some doctors are unwilling to take new patients without a referral.

3.   Specialists would be paid a lower fee if they accepted patients without referrals.

4.   The oedematous patients had similar lung function, smoking histories, and plasma protein concentrations to the patients without oedema.

5.   Testing patients without their consent would constitute a professional and legal offence.

6.   Normal mucosal biopsy specimens from three different locations of the upper gastrointestinal tract were taken during endoscopy from six dyspeptic patients without demonstrated pathology.

7.   Compared with patients without detectable infective agents dysphagia, abdominal pain, weight loss, and diarrhoea were more frequent in patients with cytomegalovirus infection.