healthmatters issue 29
Published Spring 1997CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Disability equality: achieving access for all
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Concerns over likely short and long term effects of the PFI on the NHS
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CHCs are looking out for the user’s views in GP commissioning
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Poverty threatens the health of young people
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Those policies so far
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New figures show London’s health services under increasing strain
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Column
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News
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Feature
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Ministers matter to the NHS
Charles Webster wonders whether Frank Dobson will prove to be one of the better health ministers
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Interview
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Frank talking on health inequality
After the storm over the possibility of patient charges, what else does Labour’s health team have in store? Secretary of State Frank Dobson spoke exclusively to healthmatters on the new emphasis in government health policy
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Features
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Securing the people’s health
Donald Reid spells out what Labour must do to tackle our urgent public health problems
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Health for women, and for all
There’s never been a better time to think seriously about a new agenda for women’s health, says Wendy Savage
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Good news for Labour on capital
Which is more efficient: the public sector or the private sector? Labour shouldn’t take the answer for granted, argues Jean Shaoul
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Taking a chance with our health
Could the National Lottery and scratchcards lead to widespread pathological gambling? Mark Griffiths examines the evidence
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Never mind the quality
Are contracts a useful approach to improving the quality of care? Juan Baeza and Michael Calnan have their doubts
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Column
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Some forms of madness
Who’s sick, who isn’t and who cares? Katy Gardner plays the DSS game
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Features
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Should I bother the doctor?
Demand for out-of-hours care has now become a major policy problem. Cathy Shipman and Jeremy Dale sought public reaction to one high profile ‘solution’
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A loan on the wards
Changes in nurse training and education have led to a crisis in recruitment and morale, says John Yorston
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Cuba: time to take an ethical stand
A new report on the health effects of US policy toward Cuba makes disturbing reading. John Waller reports
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Reviews
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When the market isn’t the answer
SOCIAL CARE MARKETS
Wistow G, Knapp M, Hardy B, Forder J, Kendall J Manning R
Open University Press, 1996, £15.99 -
A vision not very clearly shared
SHARED CARE: a model for clinical management
Peter Edwards, Stephen Jones, Dennis Shale, Mark Thursz
Radcliffe Press, 1996, £18.50 -
Efficient use of resources
MANAGING SCARCITY: priority setting and rationing in the National Health Service
Rudolph Klein, Patricia Day, and Sharon Redmayne
Open University Press, 1996, £13.99 -
Research in small steps
RESEARCH METHODS IN PRIMARY CARE
Y Carter and C Thomas (eds)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1997, £18.99 -
‘Selling’ care to customers
MARKETING AND HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS
Colin Gilligan and Robin Lowe
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1995, £18.50 -
Wider discussion needed
THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF INFERTILITY
Chrissie Jones
Next Step Publishing, 1995, £4.99 -
Community and trust
MARKETS AND NETWORKS: contracting in community health services
Rob Flynn, Gareth Williams, Susan Pickard
Open University Press, 1996, £14.99
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Features
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New virus, new stories
AIDS AND THE PUBLIC DEBATE.
C Hannaway, VA Harden, J Parascandola (eds.) IOS Press, 1995 -
Picking up the pieces
JIGSAW: a political criminology of youth homelessness.
Pat Carlen. Open University Press, 1996
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Letters
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Column
