healthmatters issue 10
Published Spring 1992CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Interview
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Keen on collaboration, not competition
The NHS Support Federation remains in the front line of the battle to win the argument over the government’s NHS reforms. Its chair, Professor Harry Keen, spoke to healthmatters
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Features
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An opportunity to put health before health care
The NHS reforms together with the forthcoming restructuring of local government provide the perfect moment for a paradigm shift which would put health back at the centre of health policy, argues David Hunter
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Yes, Minister?
You may be unhappy about the state of the NHS, but what would you do as health minister? healthmatters readers and writers take up the challenge
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Waiting lists: the long and the short of it
The government is highlighting waiting list reductions as proof that the NHS reforms have ‘worked’. But does a falling waiting list imply a more efficient NHS? The Radical Statistics Health Group examines the facts
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A drink to the single market
As the EC moves to ‘approximate’ taxes on alcohol, Philip Davies warns of the public health consequences
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Pollution needs a good airing
Air quality should be accurate, understandable and more widely available, says Mary Stevens
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Midwives and medicine: what will the future deliver?
A new, research-based and woman-centred midwifery is emerging from the shadow of medical dominance. But what vision do midwives themselves hold of the future? Jane Muzira reports
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Unequal chances of a lifetime
Inequalities in health persist, yet attract little official research funding. David Blane wonders why
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Please sir, I want some more…
Government cutbacks have reduced the quantity — and the quality — of school meals. Robin Jenkins explains
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Reviews
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Built-in racism
BLACK HEALTH: A POLITICAL ISSUE
Ntombenhle Protasia Khotie Torkington
Catholic Association for Racial Justice and Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, 1991, £7.95 -
Looking in on nursing
NURSING A PROBLEM
Lesley Mackay
Open University Press, 1989 -
Mixed greens, little meat
THE GREENING OF MEDICINE
Patrick Pietroni
Gollancz, 1991 -
Practical labouring
LEADING ANTENATAL CLASSES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
Judy Priest and Judith Scott
Butterworth Heinemann, 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
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Column
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What more could you ask for?
Eric the Heretic speaks his mind — straight from the horse’s mouth
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Letters
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Health warning on housing policy
Health warning on housing policy
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The psychiatric shock treatment
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Health warning on housing policy
Health warning on housing policy
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Innovation in co-operation
Innovation in co-operation
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