well another work of art of sorts the royal academy in london is also celebrating a major anniversary with a special exhibition that plus and other parts of the u.k. some people were caught eating humble pie more on these stories coming up in today's express. on tuesday the media caught a first glimpse of the royal academy of arts an upcoming two hundred fiftieth summer exhibition called carried out by turner prize winning english artist grayson perry whose own works are among those on display at the world's largest open submission show when it opens on june twelfth visitors will be welcomed by and kapoor an installation in the courtyard. some. thirteen hundred pieces have been assembled for the prestigious exhibition. including a work by graffiti artist banksy. a parallel exhibition traces the history of this annual show. french performance artist. has moved into temporary digs a wooden statue in the park of the museum of. he intends to stay holed up inside for an entire week. all of it on posts of odd took with him was some water and a little see the artist has raised eyebrows with

front page of the daily telegraph, that big picture, a very bright picture, and the launch of the royal academy attacked 0xbridge for its staggering failure to attract black student5. staggering failure to attract black students. they say they must look beyond exam results to achieve diver5ity. beyond exam results to achieve diversity. and i don't know how you feel about salad cream by a particular brand, but it is having a rebound for the first time since it was invented over 100 years ago, it will be renamed sandwich cream. i don't know whether the salad idea put5 people off, or what it is, at the tendency of people to eat it in 5andwiche5 rather than on 5alad5. did they not try and scrap it and it was a big publicity stunt? could well be. the front page of the times talks about kate spade, a5 a lot of the papers are as well, and the guardian talking about similar stories, and the heathrow expansion plan we will be discussing later. lot5 plan we will be discussing later. lots of different things in the sports pages this morning. i will start with the back page of the time5, because it is basi

professor carrie macewen is chair of the academy of medical royal colleges — the organisation that coordinatesges and faculties. she told me that there is over medicalisation in western practice. the criteria used is evidence —based, so research was carried out and the input was from expert and front line clinicians and input from patients. using these criteria we have drawn up a list of procedures that probably are either falling into three categories, had been demonstrated to be ineffective, secondly, may be effective but only under certain criteria, or thirdly, can be effective but only after other interventions have been tried. some of these are presumably because medical practice has changed. the tonsillectomy being the obvious one. what about the concern that this is a form of rationing by the back door because some of these procedures would be done in certain cases and people worry about the judgment made. if it is financial. this is not financial, certainly from our perspective it is about safe and appropriate care of patients because any intervention that is not necessary potentially

carrie macewen is chair of the academy of medical royal colleges, the organisation that coordinates theoyal colleges and faculties, and shejoins me now. thank you for being with us. good morning. let me ask you, you have been involved in drawing up this list. what criteria have you used? it is recognised there is an element of over medicalisation within western practice and the criteria we have used is evidence —based, so research was carried out initially. the input was from experts and front—line clinicians with input from patients. using these criteria together we have drawn up a list of procedures which probably fall into three categories. 0ne, demonstrated to be ineffective. second, may ineffective but only under certain criteria. thirdly, can be effective but only after other interventions which are less invasive. some of these are because medical practice has changed over years, tonsillectomy being the obvious one. what about the concern some will have that this is a form of rationing by the back door. some of these procedures will be done in certain cases and people will be worr