healthmatters issue 45
Published Summer 2001CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Low pay is still widespread in NHS hospitals
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NHS ranked 24 in efficiency table
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‘Voices’ raised over patient power
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A lifetime lasts ten more years in Dorset than in Glasgow
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Psychiatry ‘hijacked’ by Big Pharma
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In brief
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Staffing is key to good long term care
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Target global funds ‘to health systems, not diseases’
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Column
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Interview
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Doctor in the House
Dr Richard Taylor, the new and very independent MP for Wyre Forest, speaks exclusively to healthmatters
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Features
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After the truth, reconciliation
The Bristol inquiry has reported, but can the NHS learn the lessons? Maria Shortis, whose daughter died after cardiac surgery, believes there is a way forward
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Getting a cut of the action
Giving private companies a bigger role seems central to Labour’s current NHS reforms – but as Richard Lewis explains, private health care seems to be less cost-effective and may even cost more
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A licence to bill?
A private health care company guilty of fraudulent billing in the US is now busy in the UK. Geof Rayner asks whether it can be trusted
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Look behind the mask
Under Labour’s public-private ‘concordat’ increasing numbers of NHS patients will be cared for in the private sector. But will the safety and clinical standards of commercial hospitals be up to scratch? Richard Ennals has doubts
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Shifting and unbalanced
Labour’s current NHS reforms are throwing the whole public health infrastructure into the air, says Tony Jewell
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Hidden dangers on home ground
Screening programmes have their place – but where is the research and action on the causes of breast cancer? Laura Potts reports on how women’s groups are initiating their own research
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Foundations to build on
The effect of poor housing on health has long been known, but now health action zones are creating new opportunities for health and housing professionals to work together, says Sheila Spencer
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Reviews
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Not for the worried well
A WOMAN’S DIAGNOSE-IT-YOURSELF GUIDE TO HEALTH
Sarah Jarvis, Keith Hopcroft and Alistair Moulds
Oxford University Press, 2000, £9.99 -
Change reactions
SPOTLIGHT ON GENERAL PRACTICE
Sally Irvine and Hilary Haman
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000, £18.95 -
Things done in our name
ADVANCE OF THE QUANGO STATE
Chris Skelcher, Stuart Weir and Lynne Wilson
Local Government Information Unit, 2000, £15.00 -
Get people together
NEW BEGINNINGS: towards patient and public involvement in primary health care
Stephen Gillam and Fiona Brooks (eds)
King’s Fund, 2001, £14.99 -
Rigour but not mortis
WORLD HEALTH AND DISEASE
Alastair Gray (ed)
Buckingham Open University Press, 2001, £17.99 -
Don’t forget the nurses
WORKING WITH OLDER PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES
Mike Nolan, Sue Davies and Gordon Grant (eds)
Open University Press, 2001, £17.99 -
White coat, white club
RACISM IN MEDICINE: an agenda for change
Naaz Coker (ed)
King’s Fund, 2001, £15.99 -
A notable CD collection
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES
Liz McShane & Martin O’Neil (eds)
Craigavon & Banbridge Community Health & Social Services Trust, 1999, £12.50
PRIVATE TROUBLES & PUBLIC ISSUES
Jane Jones
Community Learning Scotland, 1999, £9.50 -
So far, so good in practice
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRIMARY CARE GROUPS AND TRUSTS
Michael Dixon and Kieran Sweeney (eds)
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000, £22.50
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Letters
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Column
