healthmatters issue 14
Published Summer 1993CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Features
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Brand loyalty
Jo Brand talks to Frank Chalmers about condoms, colostomies, community care — and her loyalty to the NHS
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All work and low pay
The government believes the health and safety of children at work is adequately protected. Mandy Garner looks at the facts
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What’s the point in stopping?
What is it about being poor — and a young woman — that increases the likelihood of smoking, asks Patti White
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Keys to the future?
The new community care arrangements got underway in April. For some users, doors will open — but others may find themselves out in the cold, says Gail Wilson
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But will the doctors buy it?
Allowing GP fundholders to purchase community nursing may reverse years of achievement, argues Jean Orr
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Service user seeks trusting relationship
The future of community psychiatric nursing is in the spotlight as the Department of Health’s mental health nursing review gets under way. Jo Lucas reports on the user’s view
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Is the future fundholding?
GP fundholding was supposed to ‘kickstart’ the internal market of the new NHS. But the policy could now be on a collision course with the rest of the reforms. David Hardy reports
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Sharing a very good practice
It’s not often that demolishing a shopping centre is the cue for people to become partners in planning. Chris Drinkwater explains
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A bad case of bigotry
Two researchers uncovered evidence of racism in medical training — and found themselves under investigation. Aneez Esmail reports
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Dying for effective contraception
Maternal mortality rates in Russia are comparable to those in Britain half a century ago. One in five of these deaths is due to abortion. Denise Kendrick reports
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Fewer beds, but more patients?
What’s the statistical verdict on the NHS changes? The Radical Statistics Health Group offer some early evidence
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Schizophrenia: whose delusion?
People diagnosed as schizophrenic are not helped by the images of hopelessness and pity portrayed by the media, politicians and even charities, says Nigel Rose
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Review
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The return of the ration book
Research Paper 6: Priority setting in purchasing
Research Paper 8: Rationing dilemmas in health care
National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, 1993
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Column
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Doctor, I swapped the wife!
Eric the Heretic puts the boot into beefcake sexperts
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Reviews
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Care and development
Putting the Community into Community Care: Report of a Conference
John Armstrong and Paul Henderson (eds)
Community Development Foundation, 1992 -
Trust us, we’re doctors
States, regulation and the medical profession
Michael Moran & Bruce Wood
Open University Press, 1993 -
Reasons to be cheerful
Nursing development units: work in progress
G Black (ed)
King’s Fund Centre, 1992, £10.50 -
Customer rights OK?
Whose standards?
Charlotte Williamson
Open University Press, 1992 -
Guide to consultation
The first 24 hours
Arnold, Finucane and Rose
Manchester MIND, 1993, £1.50
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Obituary
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Letters
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Column
