Stories by Belinda Pratten

Features
- Listen so that people will talk
  
  Establishing a dialogue with minority ethnic groups is a particular challenge, say Belinda Pratten and Shelly Choudhury
- The end of an era?
  
  The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, the last NHS hospital guaranteeing women treatment in an all-women environment, has now introduced male consultants. But all is not yet lost…
- Bringing the world stage a little nearer home
  
  The government is a signatory to the World Health Organisation’s Health for All strategy. Trade unions should capitalise on this to consolidate their health promotion role, say Frances O’Grady and Belinda Pratten
News
- One million names could save NHS
Reviews
- A notable CD collection
  
  COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
  Liz McShane & Martin O’Neil (eds)
  Craigavon & Banbridge Community Health & Social Services Trust, 1999, £12.50
  
  PRIVATE TROUBLES & PUBLIC ISSUES
  Jane Jones
  Community Learning Scotland, 1999, £9.50
- Lowering the safety net
  
  MARKETS AND MANAGERS: NEW ISSUES IN THE DELIVERY OF WELFARE
  Peter Taylor-Gooby & Robyn Lawson (eds)
  Open University Press, 1993, £12.99
- Reclaim the knife
  
  ESSAYS ON WOMEN, MEDICINE AND HEALTH
  Ann Oakley
  Edinburgh University Press, 1993, £14.95
- Mother’s ruin
  
  GHOST PAINS
  Jane Severance
  Sheba Press, 1992, £6.99
- No more invisible men
  
  DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH
  ed Helen Roberts
  Routledge, 1990
- Mixed greens, little meat
  
  THE GREENING OF MEDICINE
  Patrick Pietroni
  Gollancz, 1991
- The birth of free will
  
  WHO’S HAVING YOUR BABY? A HEALTH RIGHTS HANDBOOK FOR MATERNITY CARE
  Beverly Lawrence Beech
  Bedford Square Press (2nd Edition), 1991
- Confronting oppression
  
  BURST OF LIGHT
  Audré Lorde
  Sheba, £4.95
- Maternity and women at work
  
  WOMEN, WORK AND MATERNITY: THE INSIDE STORY
  O’Grady F and Wakefield H
  Maternity Alliance, £2.50