healthmatters issue 28
Published Winter 1996/7CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Majority of GPs ‘disenchanted’ with reforms
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New government must tackle homelessness for mental health’s sake
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Local pay isn’t helping low paid NHS staff
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Equality of age of consent for gay and heterosexual men
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Concerns over independence of new food safety body
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In brief
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NHS abortions are ‘effectively means-tested’
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Column
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News
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Features
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A case of ‘tragic incoordination’?
Recent outbreaks of E.Coli offer an opportunity to examine the adequacy of our public health protection, says Charles Webster
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Progress by chaos?
The two recent White Papers on primary care set a potentially radical agenda for the future. But opinion is divided on the likely effects of change, reports David Glasman
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Learning a new way of thinking
Does anyone know what ‘the primary care-led NHS’ really means? David Martin offers an explanation, and searches out a second opinion
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General practice enters the market
The White Papers signal the end of the general practice monopoly and begin a process of deregulating primary care, argues Steve Iliffe
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Column
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Considering a leap in the dark
GP Katy Gardner ponders the pros and cons of becoming a trust employee
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Features
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Co-operating for health
Despite two decades of individualism in health policy, co-operative approaches to promoting good health are alive and well all around the country, say Katherine Gaskin and Jill Vincent
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Whose needs are they anyway?
There are multiple benefits to a community-based approach to health needs assessment, argue Georgina Webster and Jan Smithies
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2007: look back in anger
In ten years the Private Finance Initiative will be seen as lethal medicine for the NHS, warns Dexter Whitfield
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Nappy waste: the bottom line
Jade Reynolds examines the case for replacing disposables with washables
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Risky treatment for the NHS
In a review essay of a Chris Ham’s recent Demos publication, Geof Rayner cautions against uncritically importing US policy ideas into the NHS
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Reviews
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Risk sharing
Children at Risk? Safety as a Social Value
Helen Roberts, Susan Smith, Carol Bryce
Open University Press, 1996, £12.99 -
Budgets for all by the year 2000
Purchaser plurality in UK health care
Nicholas Mays and Jennifer Dixon
King’s Fund, 1996
A review of innovations in primary health care
Lyn Harrison and Hilary Neve
The Policy Press, 1996, £14.95 -
Dissecting ‘the hidden hand’
Social policy for nurses and the caring professions
Louise Ackers and Pamela Abbott
Open University Press, 1996, £12.99 -
Stop feeling sorry
Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability
Jenny Morris (ed)
The Women’s Press, 1996, £8.99 -
Future docs
Health in the new communications age: Studies in health technology and informatics, volume 24
Laires M, Ladeira MJ, Christensen JP (eds)
IOS Press, 1995, £74 -
New caring for old
Changing services for older people: the neighbourhood support units innovation
Alan Walker and Lorna Warren
Open University Press, 1996, £14.99 -
A weight off your mind
Diet Breaking: Having It All Without Having To Diet
Mary Evans Young
You Count, Calories Don’t
Linda Omichinski with Mary Evans Young
Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, 1996 -
Aim for a good outcome
Outcomes of Community Care for Users and Carers
Nocon, A and Qureshi, H
Open University Press, 1996, £14.99
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Letters
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