Community Health News - 1996 - 2000 (New Series)

The CHC News became a forum for CHC members and staff to exchange experiences, information and ideas. 
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1996
Issue 1     -     June - Informing and Empowering Patients
Issue 2     -     August - Looking ahead: Government proposals for primary care, the BMA on funding
Issue 3     -     September -  Proposals for prioritising 999 calls
Issue 4     -     October -  Health of the National evaluation + awards
Issue 5     -     November  -  Debate about insurers' access to information
Issue 6     -     December  -  Social services and continuing care
1997
Issue 7     -     February - Dentistry, medical negligence and the Insight report 
Issue 8     -     March  - NHS complaints procedures
Issue 9     -     April - Child Health from HoC Health Committee
Issue 9      -    April - Supplement Main Topic What's in store for CHCs?
Issue 10    -    May - Long term care of elderly people
Issue 11    -    June - Private Finance Initiative
Issue 12    -    July -  Policies in Wales
Issue 13    -    September  - Contribution from the Ombudsman
Issue 14    -    October - Britain's widening health gap
Issue 15    -    November - Survey on complaints
Issue 16    -    December - Towards integration of orthodox, complementary and alternative medicine
1998
Issue 17    -   January  -  Waiting lists, HAS 2000, 'consultation' on Welsh ambulance 
                      services, NHW Charter in Wales
Issue 18    -    February / March - NHS White Papers for England, Scotland and Wales on primary care and CHCs
Issue 19    -    April -  Does the Community Care?
Issue 20    -    May - Democracy and User Involvement in the NHS:  FOI White Paper and its implications for drug licensing:
                                 New procedures for NHS Board Meetings:  Government promises more public scrutiny  
Issue 21    -    June - Initiatives on avoiding hunger in hospitals  
Issue 22    -    July - Consulting children as consumers of health services:  women at risk on mixed sex mental health wards
Issue 23    -    August / September  -  An introduction to ACHCEW's new Chair, Joyce Struthers
Issue 24    -    October  -  Poor people making less of the NHS
Issue 25    -    November - NHS and social services
Issue 26    -    December - ACHCEW gives evidence in Parliament
1999
Issue 27    -     January / February -  ACHCEW in the media and evidence to HoC on regulations of private health care 
Issue 28    -     March - Getting CHCs onto the political agenda:  Casualty Watch
Issue 29    -     April  -  ACHCEW Commission: CHC performance evaluation:  Revalidation for Doctors
Issue 30    -     May - New NHS and waiting lists
Issue 31    -     June - CHCs working for consumer and community involvement
Issue 32    -     July - Disappointment over the Freedom of Information Bill
Issue 33    -     August / September - Protection for whistleblowers:  Dignity on the Ward
Issue 34    -     October -  NHS Complaints Procedure fails patients
Issue 35    -     November / December - BMA guidelines fail to protect patient confidentiality
2000
Issue 36     -    February -  Nationwide Casualty Watch 2000 is the biggest yet
Issue 37     -    May - Commission report on NHS accountability published