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Publish and be damned
Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Warming to hotspots: Barry Elliott
Incoming HFMA chair Barry Elliott is a man used to political hotspots. Since joining the NHS in 1983 - he spent his early career in local government - he has worked in a number of areas inextricably associated with newspaper headlines.
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Loss cause
Eighty-five ex-employees of a privatised NHS consultancy who lost their pensions when it went to the wall have reached a settlement - but the fight goes on for those still awaiting justice. Patrick Butler reports
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Penalty kicks
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country under the terms of the new Immigration and Asylum Act will make it harder than ever for them to access medical services. Barbara Millar reports
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Sight for sore eyes
Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.
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Rocking the boat without fear and with confidence
The right to criticise policy must be for the many, not the few
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WEB WATCH
In an era replete with New Age quacks and frauds who assert the curative and health-enhancing benefits of anything from gemstones to the laying on of hands, not to mention their innate superiority over 'western' medicine, it is worthwhile recalling the long, hard slog of intellectual effort which laid the ...
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To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time
Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions
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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