healthmatters issue 38
Published Autumn 1999CONTENTS
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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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New Labour promises but old Tory policies
Labour’s warm embrace of the Private Finance Initiative for the NHS stands in stark – and disturbing – contrast to the impression it had previously given to Labour voters, says Charles Webster
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Features
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NHS here, how can I help you?
Two new services will transform the NHS – and New Labour’s re-election chances – for good or ill, argues James Munro
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Beds going down, work going up
The Radical Statistics Health Group charts the rises and falls of the NHS under a Labour administration
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A new kind of primary care
Labour’s reforms of primary care move the NHS away not only from the entrepreneurialism of fundholding, but from 50 years of individualism in general practice, argues Richard Lewis
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PFI – you’ll Pay For It later
Far from solving the cash shortage in the NHS, the Private Finance Initiative makes matters worse by draining the budgets that pay for services and staff, explains Allyson Pollock
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Can we afford to go private?
Fifty years on, a consultants’ right to work privately is still jealously guarded and the effect this has on the NHS is still unclear. Laurence Pollock examines New Labour’s uncertain position on private health care
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Pioneering or engineering?
Support for Healthy Living Centres comes mainly from those who know they will never use them. Steve Iliffe asks whether this is the right way to tackle the health problems of impoverished communities
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Wanted: a net benefit for health
The internet is a major source of health information – but it urgently needs a public health perspective, says Geof Rayner
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US health policy is pie in the sky
After years of proclaiming that the market was the answer to all their – and our – health care dilemmas, Americans are now beginning to understand that competition may create more problems than it solves. Geof Rayner investigates
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Selling the parenthood dream
As the world’s population passes six billion, parenthood remains a distant hope for many. Sandhya Srinivasan reports from India
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Reviews
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Moving in circles
A PUBLIC HEALTH MODEL OF PRIMARY CARE: from concept to reality
Taylor P, Peckham S, Turton P
Public Health Alliance, 1998 -
A guide for survivors
SEXUAL VIOLENCE: the reality for women
The London Rape Crisis Centre
The Women’s Press, 1999, £8.99 -
The PACE of change
EXPERIENCE, EVIDENCE AND EVERYDAY PRACTICE: creating systems for delivering effective health care
M Dunning, G Abi-Aad, D Gilbert, H Hutton, C Brown
Kings Fund, 1999, £12.95
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Column
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Monitoring in all fairness
Done well, ‘ethnic monitoring’ could improve access to care and highlight unmet need, says Katy Gardner
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Reviews
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A just sociology of health
HEALTH MATTERS: a sociology of illness, prevention and care
Alan Petersen and Charles Waddell (eds)
Open University Press, 1998, £16.99 -
Beyond the baskets
GM FREE: a shopper’s guide to genetically modified food
Sue Dibb and Tim Lobstein
Virgin, 1999, £4.99 -
Having fun with PCGs
WRITING INVESTMENT PLANS AND HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMMES
THE PCG TEAM BUILDER
THE PCG TOOL KIT
Roy Lilley
Radcliffe Medical Press, 1999 -
Eating, out in the open
FOOD, HEALTH AND IDENTITY
Pat Caplan (ed)
Routledge, 1997, £15.99 -
Still good, second time
A SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS (2nd edition)
David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers
Open University Press, 1999, £16.99
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Letters
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Column
