healthmatters issue 55
Special issue: Democracy and health
Published Spring 2004CONTENTS
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Editorial
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News
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Features
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Tough on the causes of ill-health?
Despite a good start, Labour now seems to be confusing health with healthcare, argue Ruth Barnes and Alex Scott-Samuel
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On whose say so?
The latest round of structural changes to the NHS make new ideas about how to involve people in the shape and running of their local health services more vital than ever, explains Alyson Morley
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Let the managers manage?
Could the NHS do with less ‘political interference’? Steve Dewar suggests it becomes a devolved agency, but Roger Seifert disagrees
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Building on shaky foundations
How do first wave foundation trusts plan to engage their stakeholders? Martin Rathfelder and Pauleen Lane have been through their applications to find out
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The dream team
Penny Abraham gives a councillor’s eye-view of the highs and lows of joint working by an inner London local authority and primary care trust
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Alliances or dalliances?
‘Partnerships’ between the NHS, local authorities and other bodies are proliferating—but their accountability is often minimal, says Fiona Campbell
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Community, not consumerism
How can local communities change how services are provided? Community-oriented primary care is one way, explain Steve Iliffe, Kalpa Kharicha and Penny Lenihan
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Power without accountability?
Non-executive directors may bring much to the governance of the NHS—but they don’t bring democracy, says Stephen Burke
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Column
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Reviews
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The personal is political
Personal medical services pilots – Modernising primary care?
Edited by Richard Lewis, Stephen Gillam and Clare Jenkins
King’s Fund,2001. £14.99 -
Sensible and dispassionate
The Oxford Book of Health Foods
JG Vaughan and PA Judd
Oxford University Press, 2003. £19.99 -
A handy guide
A Guide to the Polycystic Ovary: its effects on health and fertility
Gabor Kovacs and Jane Smith
TFM Publishing 2002. £9.99 -
It’s good to talk
Communication and Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society
Mark Robinson
The Policy Press, 2002. £15.99 -
Values and money
Hidden Assets: Values and decision making in the NHS
Edited by Bill New and Julia Neuberger
King’s Fund, 2002. £17.00 -
Minor irritant
The Insider’s Guide to the NHS – how it works and why it sometimes doesn’t
Roy Lilley
Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 2003. £17.95 -
How to be top
Medicine and Humanity
Edited by Marshall Marinker
King’s Fund, 2001. £14.99 -
Right up my hamlet
Problem-based Learning for Health Improvement: practical public health for every professional
Edited by John Cornell and Frada Eskin
Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003. £27.95
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Letters
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Interview
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One minute interview
Julie Downs is co-ordinator of the Hearing Voices Network
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