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    On a role

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Long hours, overwork and the feeling they're playing second fiddle to executives - so what exactly do non-executive directors get out of it all? Barbara Millar investigates

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    Party poopers

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain

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    Schizophenia Drugs

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Information for evidence-based care By Ruth Roberts Radcliffe Medical Press 79 pages £17.95

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    In person

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-mail: hsjeditorial@healthcare.emap.co.uk Due to pressure on space, publication cannot ...

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    Monitor

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-12-02T00:00:00Z

    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.