healthmatters issue 4
Published Summer 1990CONTENTS
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Letter
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Editorial
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Letters
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News
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Features
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Health watch is here...
Sarah Bidwell describes the West Midlands Health Service Monitoring Unit
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In need of a creche course
Competition is hotting up to attract women workers into a declining labour force, says Christine Geraghty. But is the NHS being left behind by private industry?
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What are you worth to your doctor?
Steve Iliffe outlines part one of a users’ guide to Kenneth Clarke’s squeaky clean NHS
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Community care or state neglect
Government plans for privatising community care threaten the most vulnerable, argues Bill Morris
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Calculating the cost of competition
As clinical services head towards the open market, Stephen Bach examines the record of competitive tendering
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Heading for his Waterloo
On the anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon’s final grandiose campaign, Kenneth Clark would do well to learn from history and take the counsel of his lieutenants and footsoldiers, warns David Hardy
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Whose baby is it anyway?
At a time when maternity care is being criticised increasingly for absence of choice and lack of involvement in decision-making, a number of practices in Sheffield are encouraging women to take greater control over their pregnancies. Fiona Brooks explains
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Do-it-yourself health diagnostics
The DIY philosophy, which is now spreading to over-the-counter health diagnosis, should not be dismissed out of hand, claims Ken Green
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Who’s helping who...
Managers are supposed to help, not hinder nurses’ work. But what is the reality, asks Barry Clifton
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A moustache, a gun and a guitar?
In Colombia, it costs as little as $80 to have someone killed. John Macleod reflects on the price paid by healthworkers in the fight to establish comprehensive primary health care
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Accidents will happen… but why?
Mandy Moore looks at how a holistic approach to accidents could reduce death and injury dramatically
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Columns
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Reviews
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Rights in old age
RIGHTS AND RISK
A J Norman
Centre for Policy on Ageing, £4.00 -
Pioneers of Peckham
BEING ME AND ALSO US
Stalibrass A
Scottish Academic Press, £7.95 -
Community policies
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: PATTERNS AND PROSPECTS
Wilmott P
Policy Studies Institute, £7.95
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