1.   But use of care programmes is patchy, not least because acute wards are under too much pressure to allow bed blocking.

2.   Polio patients in acute wards were seldom shielded from the deaths of others.

3.   Focus groups have been tried on acute wards with patients recuperating from operations who are able and willing to participate.

4.   It will house short-stay patients, freeing beds in acute wards.

5.   The question of smoking in acute psychiatric wards is especially difficult for doctors.