healthmatters issue 49
Special issue: Labour’s NHS reforms
Published Autumn 2002CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Column
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Features
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Uh...haven’t we been here before?
As Labour’s new wave of NHS reforms take shape, with their emphasis on market mechanisms and increasing private sector provision, the continuities with the policies of the Thatcher era are becoming all too clear, argues Richard Lewis
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Cock-up or conspiracy?
Labour’s enthusiasm for privatisation, especially in view of disasters such as Railtrack, is beyond rational argument, warns Ron Singer
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Time for a closer look
With NHS reform in full swing, it is essential that the voice of public opinion gets heard, says Paul Evans
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How the NHS harms health
NHS acceptance of low pay among contracted-out staff is unjust and worsens health inequality, reports Catherine Howarth
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Patients are a virtue
Patient participation can help health services to develop – but doctors must learn to participate too, says Jill Murie
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And did they ‘save the NHS’?
Overseas surgical teams, foundation hospitals, PFI, league tables, private sector management, and billions of pounds...Labour’s NHS reforms are dizzying. But will they kill or cure the NHS?
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Need not greed
Many deaths in developing countries could be avoided if essential drug prices were lowered. Ken Bluestone explains how pharmaceutical companies are being urged to take their social responsibilities seriously
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McCharity for the world’s poor
The UN Children’s Fund has never been well off – but should it take money from just anyone? Geof Rayner reports on Unicef’s plans to team up with the fast-food McDonald’s Coporation
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Whose DNA is it anyway?
Thousands of gene patents have been issued – yet in most cases they are not inventions, and patenting harms the public interest, warns Sue Mayer
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Reviews
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Tribes and tribulations
NURSING, MEDICINE AND PRIMARY CARE
Anne Williams
Open University Press, 2000, £16.99 -
Narrow focus, wide value
MANAGING AGGRESSION
Roy Braithwaite
Routledge, 2001, £14.99 -
National questions
SOCIAL WELFARE: SCOTTISH PERSPECTIVES
Mono Chakrabarti (ed)
Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2001, £37.50 -
Something for almost everyone
HEALTH AND DISEASE: A reader (3rd edition)
Basiro Davey, Alastair Gray and Clive Seale (eds)
Open University Press, 2001, £17.99 -
Reflections on reality
MEETING HOMELESS PEOPLE’S NEEDS: Service development and practice for the older excluded
Anthony Warnes and Maureen Crane
King’s Fund, 2000, £17.99 -
Look at your back in anger
EUROPE UNDER STRAIN
Rory O’Neill
European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety, 1999, £14.00 -
We’ve been hospitalised
HOSPITALS IN A CHANGING EUROPE
Martin McKee and Judith Healy (eds)
Open University Press, 2002, £22.50 -
A dose of reality
ETHNICITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Paul Iganski and David Mason
Ashgate Publications, 2002, £39.95 -
Survival strategies
DEALING WITH DEPRESSION
Gerrilyn Smith and Kathy Nairne
Women’s Press, 2001, £8.99 -
Men aren’t the problem
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEN’S HEALTH
Lee, C and Owens, RG
Open University Press, 2002, £17.99
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Letters
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Column
