What will British healthcare look like in 20 years' time?

At 8:40am, a medical student named Derek entered the doctor’s office on the Enhanced Recovery post-op ward and sat down by a computer. Two of the foundation doctors, Amir and Sarah, looked up to acknowledge his presence before continuing their preparation for the imminent ward-round. Derek was feeling pro-active so he grabbed the office’s VR headset and looked up which operations were currently being streamed. To his delight, a patient undergoing a spinal reconnection had consented for educational streaming and the operation had started 40 minutes ago.

'To Give or Not to Give'

In order to be passed, the draft bill must first be introduced into the assembly, go through all 4 stages of scrutiny and then be presented for Royal Assent. Ministers aim for the law to be in place by 2015.As medical students, we should all know about the legal regulations surrounding key aspects of medicine, The Welsh Government published the Draft Human Transplantation Act in June 2012 [1]. It proposes that Welsh residents give presumed consent for organ donation unless they ‘opt out’ of the system.