healthmatters issue 24
Published Winter 1995/96CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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News
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Column
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A spirit of healthy competition
The fiftieth anniversary of Bevan’s widely welcomed NHS Bill is a good moment to reflect on the scale of his achievement, says Charles Webster
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Features
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Really working for patients
GP commissioning goes beyond fundholding in its ability to secure good health care for all and address public health issues, argues Ron Singer
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New signs of accountable healthcare
Despite the rhetoric of quality, it’s getting harder to hold health care providers to account, warns Gillian Dalley
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Interview
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Public money for private gain
New Zealand’s shadow secretary of state for health, Leanne Dalziel, spoke to healthmatters about her fears for the NHS
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Features
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Is this a good investment?
The government’s private finance initiative distorts NHS priorities, weakens democratic control and risks destroying the public sector ethos of the health service, warns Dexter Whitfield
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Radical surgery
In failing to create an open market in healthcare, the NHS reforms have been a frustration to the Right - but the think tanks still have ideas for radical reform. Wendy Moore investigates
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They’re all shook up
Our response to drug-taking should begin by looking again at the everyday pressures on young people, says Keith Popple
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When it’s too late to ‘say no’
Tackling drugs together, the white paper on drugs, begins to define a national strategy but ignores some fundamental questions, argues Chris Ford
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Column
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Beware the Hypocritic Oath
Eric the Heretic has been casting a cynical eye over recent political antics
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Feature
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Beyond the fringe
There are a whole range of issues to face up to - quite apart from that of effectiveness - before complementary therapies could become integrated into the health service. Julie Stone reports
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Reviews
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Between the estate and the state
Analysing Community Work: Its Theory and Practice
Keith Popple
Open University Press, 1995, £12.99 -
Who will lead the’primary care-led’ NHS?
MANAGING THE PRACTICE - WHOSE BUSINESS?
June Huntington
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1995, £16.50 -
Global warning
Prescription for Change: Health and the Environment
Friends of the Earth, 1995 -
A text to keep in mind
Preventing Mental Illness
Jennifer Newton
Routledge, 1988 (reprinted 1989, 1990, 1993), £12.99 -
Rationing irrationality
Priority Setting in Action: Purchasing Dilemmas
F Honigsbaum, J Richards, A Lockett
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1995, £17.50 -
Open to some debate
Open Learning in Nursing, Health & Welfare Education
Kate Robinson & Pam Shakespeare
Open University Press, 1995, £14.99 -
HP source
Health Promotion Theory and Practice
J Kemm and A Close
Macmillan, 1995, £13.99
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Letters
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Column
