healthmatters issue 20
Published Winter 1994/95CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Features
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Figuring out league tables
Hospital league tables might be a good idea if the right information was being collected, says the Radical Statistics Health Group
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Making it up as they go along?
Do the government’s plans to expand GP fundholding mark the start of a new, consumer-friendly NHS — or the abandonment of progress towards accountability and equity in health care? Wendy Moore canvasses opinion
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Paying for poor policy
When public policies work against good health the NHS picks up the bill, explains Richard Lawson
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The creeping privatisation of community care
The changes of the last few years have seen a gradual shift of long term care from the public to the private sector and of costs from the state to the individual. Allyson Pollock explains how the government has privatised community care in all but name
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If not this time, then next time
The government’s belated response to the demands of people with disabilities is half-hearted and inadequate, argues Dougie Herd
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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
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Mainstreaming or sidelining?
As the ring-fence around funding for HIV/AIDS services comes down, Neil Small asks whether the benefits of mainstream funding will outweigh the risks
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What right to health care?
Recognising the right of a child to good health and health care goes beyond simply providing resources, to embrace issues of autonomy and protection, says Priscilla Alderson
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Reviews
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Tales of young males
SEX, LIES AND HEARSAY
GW Theatre Company, 1994 -
From bedmaking to policymaking?
NURSING AND SOCIAL POLICY: CARE IN CONTEXT
Gough P, Maslin-Prothero S, Masterson A
Butterworth Heinemann, 1994 -
Global perspectives on reproduction
PRIVATE DECISIONS, PUBLIC DEBATE: WOMEN, REPRODUCTION AND POPULATION
Panos Publications, 1994 -
Observation or participation?
COMMUNITY PROFILING: AUDITING SOCIAL NEEDS
Murray Hawtin, Geraint Hughes and Janie Percy-Smith
Open University Press, 1994, £12.99 -
Living with dying
CANCER IN TWO VOICES
Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
The Women’s Press, 1994, £7.99
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Feature
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A foot in both camps
Rosa Hudson has dipped a reluctant toe into the chilly waters of NHS planning
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Review
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Opening up the new NHS
FOR YOUR INFORMATION A REPORT OF A PROJECT TO LOOK AT INFORMATION ON DHA CONTRACTS
Nikki Joule
GLACHC, 1994
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Column
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No mere appendix
Eric is as outraged as everyone else over the story of the Little Nurse who Could
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Review
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Too few hands on today’s pumps
The Epidemiological Imagination
Edited by John Ashton
Open University Press, 1994, £12.99
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Letters
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Column
