Kieran Potts

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC People living in more deprived areas with a terminal illness are more likely to experience unplanned hospital admissions compared with those in less deprived areas. Ambulance clinicians have an important role to play in deciding whether to convey patients to hospital. Few studies have looked at the association between area deprivation and whether patients who are terminally ill are taken to hospital by ambulance services.

An interesting question was asked recently in LinkedIn's JavaScript group: Does JavaScript need to be renamed? The question really got me thinking. There's no doubt there are problems with JavaScript's branding: 1. The official specification for the language is actually called ECMAScript – a somewhat clumsy bit of branding on the part of the standards organisation that oversees the language's specification, Ecma International. 2.