Stories by Steve Iliffe
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Features
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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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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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An alternative NHS reform
The government claims to be ‘reforming’ the NHS, but has only succeeded in raising public anxiety and alienating health professionals. An alternative strategy is needed, says Steve Iliffe
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Unsteadily into the future
Will the fast-changing nature of primary care work to the advantage of older people, or against them? Steve Iliffe assesses an uncertain future
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Pioneering or engineering?
Support for Healthy Living Centres comes mainly from those who know they will never use them. Steve Iliffe asks whether this is the right way to tackle the health problems of impoverished communities
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Plenty of interests in PCGs
Steve Iliffe analyses the complex politics which will dominate the early life of primary care groups
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General practice enters the market
The White Papers signal the end of the general practice monopoly and begin a process of deregulating primary care, argues Steve Iliffe
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Radicalism and compromise
The NHS may be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Labour’s post-war achievements, but the history of its creation is marked by expedience and compromise. And we are still living with the results of compromises made 50 years ago, argues Steve Iliffe
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Who gains from health promotion?
Health promotion in primary care does more for the doctors than the patients, says Steve Iliffe
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Down with markets... maybe
Labour’s consultative document on health policy doesn’t come clean on the hard questions, says Steve Iliffe
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Who killed Harry Elphick?
Whose fault is it when a middle-aged smoker is refused heart surgery? Steve Iliffe reports from the ethical front line
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Home thoughts from abroad
With the NHS reforms hardly bedded down, the health debate has already turned to Europe and the US. Steve Iliffe surveys the lessons to be learned from experience elsewhere
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The cost of ‘winning’
How can a destroyed nation cope with the human casualties of war? Steve Iliffe reports
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What are you worth to your doctor?
Steve Iliffe outlines part one of a users’ guide to Kenneth Clarke’s squeaky clean NHS
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Interviews
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Fighting for the tooth
The sugar industry is up in arms over new WHO dietary guidelines. Steve Iliffe asked Aubrey Sheiham to assess the industry’s arguments
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The tide is not rising
Has the ‘demographic time bomb’ gone off? Hospital specialist Linda Patterson spoke to healthmatters about ageing, the NHS and the evolution of geriatric medicine
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Straight from the dentist’s mouth
There may be gnashing of teeth, but is there really a crisis in NHS dentistry? healthmatters spoke to Aubrey Sheiham, professor of community dental health at University College, London
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Keen on collaboration, not competition
The NHS Support Federation remains in the front line of the battle to win the argument over the government’s NHS reforms. Its chair, Professor Harry Keen, spoke to healthmatters
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A battle won, but not the war
With three local ambulance services ‘opting out’, the future for ambulance crews again looks uncertain. NUPE chief negotiator Roger Poole talks to Steve lliffe about the prospects for the service
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News
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Out-of-hours medical care may be commercialised
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Invalidity benefit to be restructured
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Alcohol industry avoids confronting its drink problem
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Time to go Dutch?
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A drink a day keeps the doctor at bay
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One city, four regions
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Long march to shorter hours
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Threat to ex-GDR clinics
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More questions than answers
Steve Iliffe casts an eye over the government’s ‘consultative document for health in England’ — and finds it long on optimism, but short on detail
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The trials of homeopathy
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’Free’ GP computers crash
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War: what is it good for?
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The first casualty: truth
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Dirty dozen
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1980s: a decade of diarrhoea
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So how long have I got, doctor?
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Good food — glowing with irradiation
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Leukaemia cluster worry
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Cholesterol checks are unjustified
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Importing a US reject
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Reviews
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Not forgetting the forgetful
MANAGING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN PRIMARY CARE
Henry Brodaty
Science Press, 1998 -
Growing beyond good intentions
DEMENTIA RECONSIDERED: the person comes first
Tom Kitwood
Open University Press, 1997, £14.99
CULTURE, RELIGION AND CHILDBEARING IN A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY: a handbook for health professionals
Judith Schott & Alix Henley
Butterworth Heinmann, 1996, £19.99 -
Soundbites and scholarship
GENERAL PRACTICE UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE 1948-97
Loudon I, Horder J & Webster C (eds)
Clarendon Press, 1998, £45.00
THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE NHS: your questions answered
Norman Vetter
Radcliffe, 1998 -
Waiting for guidance?
THE POTENTIAL FOR HEALTH: how to improve the nation’s health
Kenneth Calman
Oxford University Press, 1998 -
Workable wisdom
HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
Michael Bury
Routledge, 1997, £14.99 -
Future docs
Health in the new communications age: Studies in health technology and informatics, volume 24
Laires M, Ladeira MJ, Christensen JP (eds)
IOS Press, 1995, £74 -
Good old days?
Old age and the search for security: an American social history
Carole Haber and Brian Gratton
Indiana University Press, 1994 -
Trust us, we’re doctors
States, regulation and the medical profession
Michael Moran & Bruce Wood
Open University Press, 1993 -
Crises of overconsumption
FOOD FOR WEALTH OR HEALTH?
Robin Jenkins
Socialist Health Association, 1991, £3.50 -
East side stories
SOME LIVES: A GP’S EAST END
David Widgery
Sinclair Stevenson, 1991 -
Left behind by the right
SOCIALISM AND THE NHS: FABIAN ESSAYS IN HEALTH CARE
ed John Carrier & Ian Kendall
Avebury, 1990 -
Who needs hospitals?
HOSPITAL AT HOME: THE ALTERNATIVE TO GENERAL HOSPITAL ADMISSION
Freda Clarke
MacMillan Paperback -
The prime of its life
A QUESTION OF CARE: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Davidson N
Michael Joseph, £6.95
A NEW KIND OF DOCTOR: THE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS PART IN THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY
Julian Tudor Hart
Merlin, £12.95
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