By Michael A. WestThis practical text provides tools to help teams become more effective. It includes case studies, discussion questions, exercises and questionnaires. It draws on psychological research and the text examines those factors which prevent and promote team effectiveness. It also includes material on team leadership, on the sorts of tasks that are best done by teams, and on the relationship between working in teams and mental health. 

Plans have been revealed for the modernisation of pathology services within the NHS. Key elements include ensuring that services focus on patients’ needs, and the importance of keeping services up to date through new, appropriate and properly evaluated technologies, techniques and tests.Up to 70 per cent of all diagnoses depend on pathology but health minister, John Hutton, said the services were often invisible to the patients they served. 

Local authorities are looking at how they can play a leading role in reshaping the education service, following the proposed reforms to education for 14 to 19 year olds, set out in the report from Mike Tomlinson, the former head of OFSTED.