Nurses to decide over resuscitation

Nurses will now be allowed to take the decision not to resuscitate patients where they deem it inappropriate. Previously this was a decision restricted to Doctors and Consultants. It will apply only to certain senior nurses and the thinking is that they are often in a better position to judge a patient's situation than even a doctor might be.

This appears to mean that there will be more occasions where medical staff allow people to die. Does that mean too many people are now being subjected to frankly quite brutal efforts to keep them alive against the odds? We'll be speaking to the head of ethics at the BMA. After the bomb... ================

Benazir Bhutto has ventured out of her Karachi compound for the first time since the attempt to assassinate her on her return from exile. Amidst tight security (although looking at the TV pictures it didn't seem all that tight) she prayed at the shrine to her father.

A mild case of brain injury? =========================

It sounds oxymoronic to me; Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. But the MOD has commissioned a survey to try to establish the incidence of MTBI. It often goes undiagnosed and can be very serious for sufferers. The possibility is that 20,000 veterans may have it. The cost of our wars continues to mount. We'll be asking a consultant neurologist just what it could mean.

In the sport ============

Andrew Thomas is in for a round up of all the sport - so look away now etc. I will say that something extraordinary has happened at Stamford Bridge; and it's not just a goal from Andriy Shevchenko! Join us at 7. Carl Dinnen

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