The Water Resources Board: England and Wales’ Venture into National Water Resources Planning, 1964-1973 by Christine S. McCulloch

“…In its first Annual Report (1965) WRB claimed its role as "the master planner of the water resources of England and Wales". The WRB had a great deal of influence and justified its national planning role by promoting large-scale supply schemes such as interbasin transfers of water, large reservoirs and regulated rivers. …”
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Correction to: Rates of Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in England and Wales: Impact of COURAGE and ORBITA Trials

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Modelling the force of infection for hepatitis B and hepatitis C in injecting drug users in England and Wales by Hope VD, Edmunds WJ, Gay NJ, Sutton AJ, Gill ON, Hickman M

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Injecting drug use is a key risk factor, for several infections of public health importance, especially hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV). In England and Wales, where less than 1% of the population are likely to be injecting drug users (IDUs), approximately 38% of laboratory reports of HBV, and 95% of HCV reports are attributed to injecting drug use.…”
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Use, utility and methods of telehealth for patients with COPD in England and Wales: a healthcare provider survey by John R Hurst, Ahmed Al Rajeh, Michael C Steiner, Yousef Aldabayan, Abdulelah Aldhahir, Elisha Pickett, Shumonta Quaderi

“…Introduction Although the effectiveness of domiciliary monitoring (telehealth) to improve outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is controversial, it is being used in the National Health Service (NHS).Aim To explore the use of teleheath for COPD across England and Wales, to assess the perceptions of clinicians employing telehealth in COPD and to summarise the techniques that have been used by healthcare providers to personalise alarm limits for patients with COPD enrolled in telehealth programmes.Methods A cross-sectional survey consisting of 14 questions was sent to 230 COPD community services in England and Wales. …”
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POLYSEMY IN CONTRACTS ESTABLISHING AN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES – A CASE STUDY by Anna KIZIŃSKA

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Diabetes mellitus-related hospital admissions and prescriptions of antidiabetic agents in England and Wales: an ecological study by Gayda Abdel Rahman AbuHammad, Abdallah Y. Naser, Loay Khaled Mohammad Hassouneh

“…Aim To examine the profile of hospital admissions related to diabetes mellitus and the prescription rates of antidiabetic medications in England and Wales. Method This is an ecological study that was conducted for the period between April 1999 and April 2020 using publicly available hospitalisation data in England and Wales. …”
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Causes, temporal trends, and the effects of urbanization on admissions of wild raptors to rehabilitation centers in England and Wales by Connor T. Panter, Simon Allen, Nikki Backhouse, Elizabeth Mullineaux, Carole‐Ann Rose, Arjun Amar

“…Many threats persist for raptors in England and Wales, however, have not changed substantially over the past two decades. …”
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Pathogen seasonality and links with weather in England and Wales: a big data time series analysis by Mark P. C. Cherrie, Gordon Nichols, Gianni Lo Iacono, Christophe Sarran, Shakoor Hajat, Lora E. Fleming

“…Methods Data on infections in England and Wales from 1989 to 2014 were extracted from the Public Health England (PHE) SGSS surveillance database. …”
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Respiratory and Other Hazard Characteristics of Substances in Cleaning Products Used in Healthcare Centres in England and Wales by Sewon Lee, Andrew Povey, Martin Seed, Martie Van Tongeren

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Infant death from accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed in England and Wales: rare or unrecognised events? by Joanna Jane Garstang, Marivjena Menka

“…Methods We obtained official mortality data for England and Wales for infants dying aged 0–364 days for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision codes R95 (SIDS), R96, R98, R99 (unspecified causes of mortality) and W75 (ASSB) for the years 2000–2019.We calculated the mortality rate for ASSB, SIDS and unspecified causes based on total live births each year.Results Unexplained SUDI decreased from 353 in 2000 to 175 in 2019, with the mortality rate falling from 0.58 to 0.29 per 1000 live births. …”
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Do increases in the price of fuel increase levels of fuel theft? Evidence from England and Wales by Aiden Sidebottom, Iain Agar, Justin Kurland

“…We use weekly crime data from six police forces in England and Wales for the period January 2018 to July 2022, combined with regional data on the number of fuel sales and average fuel prices. …”
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Describing the geographical linkage between the UK Millennium Cohort Study and crime incidents in England and Wales by Nicolas Libuy, Emla Fitzsimons, David Church

“…Objective To describe the geographical linkage between the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and street-level crime incidents reported to the Police in England and Wales, and to estimate crime count and rates around MCS participants' residences. …”
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Forecasting spatial, socioeconomic and demographic variation in COVID-19 health care demand in England and Wales by Mark D. Verhagen, David M. Brazel, Jennifer Beam Dowd, Ilya Kashnitsky, Melinda C. Mills

“…Methods Combining census estimates and hospital capacity data from ONS and NHS at the Administrative Region, Ceremonial County (CC), Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level from England and Wales, we calculate the number of individuals at risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. …”
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Higher Education in England and Wales : Power struggles underlying reforms since the early Thatcher years by Cécile Deer

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Preventable suicides involving medicines: A systematic case series of coroners’ reports in England and Wales by G. Anthony, J.K. Aronson, R. Brittain, C. Heneghan, G.C. Richards

“…Background: In England and Wales coroners have a duty to write a report, called a Prevention of Future Deaths report or PFD, when they believe that actions should be taken to prevent future deaths. …”
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Infertility and risk of breast cancer in men: a national case–control study in England and Wales by Anthony J. Swerdlow, Cydney Bruce, Rosie Cooke, Penny Coulson, Michael E. Jones

“…Patients and methods We conducted a national case–control study in England and Wales, interviewing 1998 cases incident 2005–17 and 1597 male controls, which included questions on infertility and offspring. …”
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COVID-19 and influenza vaccine uptake among pregnant women in national cohorts of England and Wales by Xinchun Gu, Utkarsh Agrawal, William Midgley, Stuart Bedston, Sneha N. Anand, Rosalind Goudie, Rachel Byford, Mark Joy, Gavin Jamie, Uy Hoang, Jose M. Ordóñez-Mena, Chris Robertson, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Ashley Akbari, Aziz Sheikh, Simon de Lusignan

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Evidence-Based Policing: A Review of its Adoption and Use by Police Forces in England and Wales by Garth den Heyer

“…This research examines the adoption of evidence-based policing by police forces in England and Wales. The research found that while most officers understand what evidence-based policing is and are amenable to its adoption and use, the methods that agencies use to communicate and disseminate information, internally, were inadequate and the current organisational structures cannot support evidence-based practice.…”
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Drugs utilization profile in England and Wales in the past 15 years: a secular trend analysis by Abdallah Y. Naser, Hassan Alwafi, Tamara Al-Daghastani, Sara Ibrahim Hemmo, Hamzeh Mohammad Alrawashdeh, Zahraa Jalal, Vibhu Paudyal, Nawras Alyamani, Murouj Almaghrabi, Ahmad Shamieh

“…Aim To explore the medication utilization pattern of dispensed medications in England and Wales in the past 15 years. Method A secular trend analysis study using publically available dispensing data on the population level in England and Wales for the duration between 2004 and 2019. …”
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Looking for an explanation for the excessive male mortality in England and Wales since the end of the 19th century by Valeria Maiolo, Alice M. Reid

“…Even if, due to biological reasons, shorter life expectancy among males has been demonstrated, other factors need to be involved to explain firstly the increasing, and then the decreasing, of the male relative disadvantage over the past century.The principal aim of this paper is to provide a clearer picture of the major age-class and cause-of-death contributions to male excess mortality in England and Wales from 1881 to 2011.Results indicate a clear shift in contributions to the male disadvantage from differences occurring during the first year of life to those occurring in ageing people, and from tuberculosis, respiratory diseases, external causes and perinatal and congenital conditions to neoplasms and circulatory diseases. …”
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