healthmatters issue 42
Special issue: Commercial medicine
Published Autumn 2000CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Columns
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We resolve …
Here are some New Year resolutions allegedly made by key policymakers and powerbrokers – and published exclusively in healthmatters.
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News from nowhere
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Features
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Patient advocacy ‘jewel’ is stolen away
Community health councils are to be replaced by trust-based ‘PALS’ – but Angeline Burke argues that patients need an independent system if their interests are to be protected
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A very messy business
Before the Care Standards Act, private healthcare was largely unregulated by the state – despite its ‘market’ being ill and vulnerable people. But, Richard Ennals asks, will the Act improve patients’ rights of redress if medical procedures go wrong?
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A tale of two incomes
Proposals that new consultants work exclusively in the NHS for a fixed period are long overdue, says Peter Fisher
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Figuring out private health care
Charting the size of the private health care sector in the UK isn’t easy as it should be, say the Radical Statistics Health Group
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Now inject some accountability
In October ministers signed a ‘concordat’ between the NHS and the private sector. But if this marriage is to last there are some relationship issues to resolve first, warns Martin Rathfelder
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Why we’d rather go public
Though it admits competitive tendering has failed, New Labour still seems to believe in private health care, says Steven Weeks
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Buy organic – local or global?
Responding to our globalisation issue, Erika Zain El Din and colleagues argue that a global organic food trade could be good for us all
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Selling poor health to China
Geof Rayner explains how China suffers from the activities of the British companies exporting unhealthy lifestyles
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If the past is another country
Why do people from black and minority ethnic groups miss out on dementia care? Michael Nugent reports
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Can we have some more?
New Labour promised to take swift, decisive action to improve school meals but has served up scraps, says Charles Webster
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Reviews
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New-look look back
HEALTH CARE UK: THE KING’S FUND REVIEW OF HEALTH POLICY (1999/2000)
John Appleby and Anthony Harrison (eds)
King’s Fund, 1999 -
New energy on inequality
Gender inequalities in health
Ellen Annandale and Kate Hunt (eds)
Open University Press, 1999, £15.99 -
GP rules on CD, OK?
The Electronic Red Book
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000, £99.00 -
A guide to the therapies
BODYWORK THERAPIES FOR WOMEN
Delcia McNeil
The Women’s Press, 2000, £9.99 -
Why PFI should go
PRIVATE FINANCE IN HEALTH CARE: WHY NOT
Ben Griffith
NHS Consultants Association, 2000, £3.00 -
Making men better
Men’s health: perspectives, diversity and paradox
Mike Luck, Margaret Bamford and Peter Williamson
Blackwell Science, 2000 -
Nursing’s navel gazing
Interpreting Professional Self-Regulation: A History of the UKCC
Celia Davies, Abigail Beach
Routledge, 2000 -
Food policy digested
Perfectly Safe to Eat? The facts on food
Vicki Hird
Women’s Press, 2000, £8.99 -
Fair treatment please
Ethnicity, Disability and Chronic Illness
Waqar I U Ahmad (ed)
Open University Press, £18.99
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Letters
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