healthmatters issue 34
Published Summer/Autumn 1998CONTENTS
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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 little of old Labour does good
While recent cash injections confirm support for the NHS, Labour remains ambivalent on private health care, says Charles Webster
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Features
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Who wants a say in the NHS?
It’s time to end paternalism in the health service and take practical steps towards involving
individuals and citizens in their health care, say Marion Barnes and Martin Evans -
Behind the ‘shutters of secrecy’
There is a long way to go before NHS boards are representative of the communities they serve, explains Sue Towns
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It’s time the NHS sold out
Although things have improved, the NHS still invests heavily in the arms trade. Ray Hemmings reports on the latest figures
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Time to get things rolling
That food poverty still exists in Britain is a scandal which should be tolerated no longer — and there’s plenty that could be done, argues Jacqui Webster
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PFI: more cuts in the NHS
Using private finance to build new hospitals will lead to fewer beds, cuts in staff numbers and an emphasis on discharging patients ‘quicker but sicker’. Jean Shaoul explains why Labour should abandon the PFI
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Who’d be a GP now?
As the government announces plans to recruit 7,000 more doctors, Sylvia Myerson talks to GPs in training about their changing attitudes to the job
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Mothers in need of courage
HIV-infected women face a grim dilemma in deciding whether to breastfeed, report Rosemary Okello and Felicity Snowsill
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Still singing the same old blues
While much has changed, many aspects of hospital psychiatric care remain depressingly familiar 30 years later. Mo Hutchison offers an insider’s view
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Column
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Suffering, but not in silence
Michèle Hanson longs for a little more stiff upper lip
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Reviews
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Releasing the potential
CROSSING BOUNDARIES: accessing community mental health services for prisoners on release
Rachel Lart
The Policy Press, 1997, £14.25 -
What it is we really need?
THE NEED FOR HEALTHCARE
Rod Sheaff
Routledge, 1996, £13.99 -
Not barking, and no bite
MANAGEMENT AND COMPETITION IN THE NHS
Chris Ham
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1997 -
For hearts and minds
THE HEART ATTACK RECOVERY PLAN: the positive approach to managing your lifestyle
David Symes
THE STROKE RECOVERY PLAN: a practical guide to getting better at home
RL Hewer, D T Wade
Vermilion, 1996, £8.99 each -
Policy on the hoof
THE MAD COW CRISIS: health and the public good
Scott C Ratzan (ed)
UCL Press Limited, 1998, £14.95 -
For some, life is a drag
SMOKE RINGS
Video and booklet resource
Sheffield Health Promotion Unit, 1995 -
Well-being and being women
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF FEMINIST THERAPY AND COUNSELLING
Eileen McLeod
Open University Press, 1994 -
Avoiding the issues
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR
Maureen Devlin
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1998, £15.00 -
Waiting for guidance?
THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALTH: how to improve the nation’s health
Kenneth Calman
Oxford University Press, 1998 -
Easy on the jargon
DICTIONARY OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
Alain Li Wan Po
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1998, £16.50
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Letters
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Column
