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NICE work?

Potential and problems for psychiatry in the new National Health Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Simon M. Gilbody*
Affiliation:
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York YO10 5DD. E-mail: smg5@york.ac.uk
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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