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Party poopers
Radical reforms of US healthcare are urgently needed - just don't expect dynamic solutions from all the presidential candidates, says Howard Berliner
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Teaming with ideas
A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain
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Schizophenia Drugs
Exciting claims about what 'atypical' antipsychotic drugs can do are marred by the poor quality of much of the research evidence, say Paul Wilson, Simon Gilbody and Anne-Marie Bagnall
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Who cares wins
The changing nature of nursing in a managerial age By Ian Norman and Sarah Cowley Blackwell Science 192 pages £16.99
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A race for the truth
Ethnicity: an agenda for mental health Edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Veena Bahl Gaskell 262 pages £25
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More a musty read than a must-read
Information for evidence-based care By Ruth Roberts Radcliffe Medical Press 79 pages £17.95
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In person
Brendan Ryan has been appointed medical director at South Manchester University Hospitals trust. He succeeds Dr Philip Jones, who stepped down recently after a period of ill-health. Mr Ryan is a consultant in accident and emergency medicine and was formerly one of two trust associate medical directors.
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Events
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Monitor
Monitor isn't just here for the nasty things in life. In the spirit of partnership which pervades our glorious NHS, this week some handy hints to guide you through the clinical governance agenda, starting with a breakthrough from the Townsend Centre for International Policy Research, where they've stumbled on an ...
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Trust withholds overpayment details
A Scottish trust has been criticised for continuing to withhold details of an internal inquiry into alleged overpayments to managers despite a commitment to publish the report in full.
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Plan to cut back independent inquiries into killings floated
Independent inquiries into killings by mentally ill people would cease to be mandatory under draft proposals commissioned by the Department of Health.
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MPs want power to vet senior NHS appointments
MPs should have the power to vet senior non-executive appointments to NHS bodies in much the same way as US congressional committees hold 'confirmation hearings', according to an MPs' report.
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'No hiding place' as detected fraud doubles
The government has launched a 'counter-fraud charter 'on the back of figures showing that the value of fraud detected in the NHS almost doubled last year.
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Clean bill of health for accounts
The NHS's accounts have received a clean bill of health for an unprecedented fifth year running, NHS finance director Colin Reeves was due to announce yesterday.
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Forward march
Nursing students in Unison protest about student hardship during a National Union of Students march through London last week. Unison says student nurses often face high accommodation charges because of work placements, as well as the 'more common difficulties of just making ends meet'.
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Coe in limbo as prison job goes to outsider
One of London's best-known chief executives appears to have been left in limbo after a secondment to lead the prison service's healthcare taskforce was cut short and his post at East London and the City health authority filled.
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In Brief: Royal College of Nursing
NHS employers have been told that they should only consider international recruitment 'when its professional and service value can be clearly demonstrated' and 'it will have no adverse effects upon the recruit's home healthcare system'.
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In Brief: NHS 'beacon' sites
A website has been launched giving details of the 290 NHS 'beacon' sites to help spread best practice. The sites are funded with £10m a year from the New Opportunities Fund.