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• Features

  • Silent war on Cuba’s health

    Frank Chalmers reports from a medical aid convoy attempting to breach the 34-year-old US trade blockade of Cuba

  • Saving jobs, saving lives

    Health service cuts don’t just affect patients — they damage the health of whole communities. Frank Chalmers reports on unique research into the wider context of cutbacks

  • Brand loyalty

    Jo Brand talks to Frank Chalmers about condoms, colostomies, community care — and her loyalty to the NHS

  • Massage is the message

    A movement is underway to take massage into the community. Frank Chalmers sheds his inhibitions and investigates

  • Central America: going back to their roots

    Five hundred years after they were invaded by the conquistadors, the people of Central America are having to rediscover the medicines of their ancestors, explains Frank Chalmers

  • The timebomb ticking away in our schools

    Asbestos is present in most of Britain’s schools and by allowing the substance to be left ‘undisturbed’ the government is sanctioning a potentially lethal bequest to our schoolchildren

  • Tobacco companies: a cancer in our midst

    Britain must be forced to end its ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with the tobacco producers if a real attempt is to be made to reduce smoking, says Frank Chalmers

  • Wrap the bacon round your neck…

    Anniversaries have been all the rage this year. Frank Chalmers takes a humorous look at what healthcare can learn from the past

  • There is an alternative...

    Will the momentum of the white paper mean all opposition is swept aside? healthmatters reports on a nation-wide campaign that has just been launched in support of the NHS

• Column

  • We resolve …

    Here are some New Year resolutions allegedly made by key policymakers and powerbrokers – and published exclusively in healthmatters.

• News

  • Low pay is still widespread in NHS hospitals

  • NHS ranked 24 in efficiency table

  • ‘Voices’ raised over patient power

  • A lifetime lasts ten more years in Dorset than in Glasgow

  • Psychiatry ‘hijacked’ by Big Pharma

  • In brief

  • Staffing is key to good long term care

  • Target global funds ‘to health systems, not diseases’

  • Malaria may return as UK warms up

  • Regulatory jobs go to industry bosses

  • WTO ‘may hasten NHS privatisation’

  • Milburn sets inequality targets

  • Healthcare continues to profit from the arms trade

  • In brief

  • Milburn ‘stuffs their mouths with gold’

  • NHS helps private sector fill beds

  • ‘Make tobacco a manifesto commitment’

  • ‘Wealth redistribution will save lives’

  • PFI threat to primary care

  • Benefits system keeps disabled people on dole

  • In brief

  • Green light is given to ‘liberalisation’ of the NHS

  • Challenge to consultants’ contracts

  • NHS Plan sets target to reduce inequality

  • In brief

  • Britain shamed by child poverty

  • ‘Take NHS out of government hands’

  • Private regulation needs public pressure

  • Improving access to abortion

  • In brief

  • WTO is a ‘danger to health’ says Medact

  • Treat tobacco industry like ‘organised crime’

  • Time to ‘think the unthinkable’ on NHS charges

  • Blair must tackle wealth inequality, says UKPHA

  • In brief

  • Call to monitor tobacco trade

  • Health 21 – it’s a vision thing

  • New ‘Mentality’ for health promotion

  • Private Finance Initiative comes under pressure

  • In brief

  • Medical campaign beats US blockade of Cuba

  • New agency heralds health promotion job cuts

  • Doctors urge ban on medical weapons

  • Health workers hit by low pay tactics

  • Campaign helps to cut debt of poorest

  • PFI could lead to private monopolies

  • Rooting out racism in mental health

  • In brief

  • National health strategy launches to mixed reviews

  • Strategy on teen pregnancy ‘mostly right’

  • Primary care could offer more refuge

  • Supermarkets to become GM-free zones

  • NHS operates age discrimination

  • UKPHA swings into action

  • TV soaps hit home with health messages

  • Unions launch a ‘ship for Cuba’

  • In brief

  • Wealth still the key to better health

  • Time to neuter the ‘fat cats’

  • Women’s health not yet a human right

  • In brief

  • Last rights…

  • Time off but not in ‘loo’

  • Food standards watchdog ‘must be given more teeth’

  • Government climb-down on alcohol leaves bitter taste

  • Other voices Other Voices..

  • Europe sets the limits for work

  • ‘Strong, united voice’ for public health looks imminent

  • International business threat to health

  • Health workers campaign to cancel debt of the poorest

  • Stress in NHS staff is reaching ‘worrying levels’

  • Drug companies keep pushing the marketing limits

  • In brief

  • Primary care workers doubt viability of Labour’s fundholding alternative

  • Introduce tobacco advertising ban early, government told

  • Appeal for basic drugs in Nicaragua

  • Alarm over preventable death

  • UNO backs down on pay

  • Two steps back

  • UK team for Nicaragua

  • In brief

  • No-smoking campaign row flares

  • What did you do in 1990?

  • User groups look for safeguards

• Letter

  • Campaigning against US blockade of Cuba

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