healthmatters issue 54
Special issue: Health care and markets
Published Winter 2003CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Patient forums struggle to recruit
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Mental health: high priority but low funding
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News in brief 1
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News in brief 2
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Anger as new wave of foundation hospitals is announced
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Poorest areas lose out on NHS funding too
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Target to quit could stub out services
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Healthy, wealthy and more healthcare too
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WebMonitor
medical history
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Features
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Time for a hard look at a ‘soft disaster’
As the health select committee enquiry into obesity draws to a close, each of us must decide how we will contribute a healthier future, says Kath Dalmeny
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Changes which go to the heart of the NHS
The government must engage in honest and open debate about its long term plans for the health service, says Mark Thomas
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Payment by results
Despite the row over foundation trusts, it is New Labour’s plan to change NHS financial flows that will trigger radical change in the NHS, explain Ruth McDonald and Stephen Harrison
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Devolution stirs policy evolution
A devolved Wales is developing its own distinctive approach to health, rather than simply accepting Westminster’s policy for running a health service, says Steve Davies
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How will greater ‘consumer choice’ impact on the NHS?
‘Choice and consumer power as the route to social justice not social division’, says the prime minister of the government’s new approach to public services. But how likely is this? healthmatters went in search of reactions
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Most markets are a mess
In much of the world a simple public/private division neither applies nor matters. The issue is how to get any health care at all. Mike Rowson looks at what governments can do
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It’s the market, stupid
There’s little Europe can learn from the US about how to finance and control healthcare costs, argues Kip Sullivan
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Continuing collateral damage
The health impact of war goes far beyond the deaths and injuries in combat. healthmatters asked Jane Salvage and Mike Rowson of Medact for their assessment of the situation in Iraq
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Columns
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Reviews
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A solution in search of a problem
Public Interest: New Models for Delivering Public Services?
Jane Steele, Mary Tetlow and Alison Graham
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2003. £5.00 -
The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
GL Albrecht, R Fitzpatrick and SC Scrimshaw (eds)
Sage Publications, 2003. £29.00 -
Violence Against Women in Asian Societies
Lenore Manderson, Linda Rae Bennett (eds.)
Routledge, 2003. £16.99 -
A Right Result? Advocacy, justice and empowerment
Rick Henderson and Mike Pochin
The Policy Press, 2001. £15.99 -
Healthcare Performance & Organisational Culture
Tim Scott, Russell Mannion, Huw Davies and Martin Marshall
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003. £24.95 -
The production of unreality
Media and Health
Clive Seale
Sage Publications, 2003. £18.99
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Danny Kushlick is director of the Transform Drug Policy foundation
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Column
