healthmatters issue 51
Published Spring 2003CONTENTS
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Editorial
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For reform, but not for profit
New Labour has a grand plan for the NHS, at last. It is to relinquish public provision of health care while holding onto both the idea of equity and its financial foundation, public funding of health care
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News
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Patient expertise may be lost to NHS
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‘Patient choice’ could drain NHS of cash
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News in brief 1
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New challenge to ‘oppressive’ mental health care
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Lords vote delays bed blocking bill for a year
Campaigners have welcomed a significant victory in the vote by the House of Lords to delay the government’s bed blocking bill by a year but are still pressing to throw the reform out altogether.
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Women fear cancer – yet heart disease kills more
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UN agencies risk being undermined by corporate interests, warn activists
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News in brief 2
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Features
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Prescription for closing community pharmacies?
Proposals to deregulate the market for community pharmacy may end up cutting services patients need, says Richard Lewis
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The harmful pressure of market forces
Gordon Brown’s recent speech on the limits of market mechanisms did not go quite far enough, argues Margaret Cook
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Interview
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“Politics is medicine on a larger stage”
Dr Jean Turner, who describes herself as politically left of centre, is standing as an independent candidate in the Scottish Parliament elections in May after a distinguished career in medicine. She is one of a growing number of doctors entering the political arena. David Player met her
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Features
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Diversity, inequality, inefficiency
New ‘patient choice’ proposals suggest that the rush to create a market in the NHS is gathering pace, warns Steve Iliffe
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It’s behind you
Foundation hospitals are being presented as a return to Labour’s mutual and co-operative roots. But this is just a political pantomime, says Rosamund Stock
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When the political became personal
Health promoter Rachael Dixey was diagnosed with breast cancer – and learnt a lot about why the UK has such high mortality from the disease
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Starfish and seeing hands
Decades of war and disruption have left rural communities in Cambodia with a legacy of disease and disability. Geof Rayner reports on projects that are helping disabled people to help each other and earn a living
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So much done – and so much still to do
With tobacco advertising finally banned in the UK, health activists are celebrating by turning their attention to the next steps in the long campaign against smoking, explains Amanda Sandford
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All white now?
New disciplinary procedures may end the costly, distressing situation of suspended consultants waiting years to have their cases resolved – but too many people have already suffered medical racism for too long, reports Aneez Esmail
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Columns
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Reviews
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So many good intentions
Planning, Markets and Hospitals
John Mohan
Routledge, 2002. £16.99 -
Sensitive, honest and compelling
Pure Madness: how fear drives the mental health system
Jeremy Laurance
Routledge, 2003 -
Coping with illness–and medicine
Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness
Clare Williams
Ashgate, 2002. £37.50 -
The importance of shoes
Rehabilitation of the Older Person: a handbook for the interdisciplinary team
Amanda Squires and Margaret Hastings
Nelson Thornes, 2002 -
The Tobacco Atlas
Judith Mackay and Michael Eriksen
WHO, 2002 -
The Investigator’s Handbook
Centre for Public Services, 2003
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Hunger from the inside
Anna Watson
Sustain, 2002
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Column
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Let’s find a cure for war
All terrorists should be eliminated
Saddam Hussein is a terrorist
Therefore Saddam Hussein should be eliminated.
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Mike Rowson is director of Medact
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Column
