Rationing health care: moving the debate forward
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1553-1554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines in the independent health care sector
	Gillian Fairfield, Rhys Williams
	BMJ  1996;312:1554-1555 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contraceptive implants
	David R Bromham
	BMJ  1996;312:1555-1556 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health workers and the baby food industry
	R K Anand
	BMJ  1996;312:1556-1557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is the human testis still an organ at risk?
	Stewart Irvine
	BMJ  1996;312:1557-1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A treasured treasurer
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A treasured treasurer
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Proposed academy of medicine
	A W Macara
	BMJ  1996;312:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An academy would be inappropriate
	A H Grabham
	BMJ  1996;312:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physicians clarify their proposal for a National Council for Health Care Priorities
	Leslie Turnberg, Maurice Lessof, Peter Watkins
	BMJ  1996;312:1604-1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing in the NHS
	Sue Hay
	BMJ  1996;312:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social decisions associated with rationing are not yet acceptable
	Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  1996;312:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Debate over NHS-wide network is centred on wrong issue
	M F Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Air pollution related to transport
	Robin Russell Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:1605-1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should support parliamentary bill
	Sarah Hill
	BMJ  1996;312:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asthma epidemics and air pollution
	Jeremy Hawker, Jon G Ayres
	BMJ  1996;312:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemic of asthma was not associated with episode of air pollution
	H Ross Anderson, Richard Atkinson, Elizabeth S Limb, David P Strachan
	BMJ  1996;312:1606-1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ozone and childhood wheezy episodes
	Meirion R Evans, Gillian Richardson, Layla N Al-Jader, Michael L Burr
	BMJ  1996;312:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meteorological confounders must be considered
	Jon G Ayres
	BMJ  1996;312:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Results may have been confounded by viral infections and faulty equipment
	Graham Bentham, Peter Brimblecombe
	BMJ  1996;312:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Roger Buchdahl, Tabitha Stebbings, Abdel Babiker, Alison Parker
	BMJ  1996;312:1607-1608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Metabolic effects of hormone replacement preparations
	Naveed Sattar, Chris J Packard, Alan J Jaap
	BMJ  1996;312:1608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chickenpox and steroid cards
	David Calland, Nicholas Scriven
	BMJ  1996;312:1608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amended card is used in Oxford
	John Reynolds, Tom Jones, Julie Madden, Sarah Schofield
	BMJ  1996;312:1608-1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors Reform Society in Australia defends its reputation
	Con Costa
	BMJ  1996;312:1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of a primary care anticoagulant clinic
	Peter W Fowlie
	BMJ  1996;312:1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Issue of quality control was not addressed
	Surjeet Adlakha, Philip G Cachia, Martin J Pippard, Peter G Davey, Barclay M Goudie
	BMJ  1996;312:1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting of results should be standardised
	D A Fitzmaurice, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  1996;312:1609-1610 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Sheena H Macgregor, James A Dunbar
	BMJ  1996;312:1610 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs in Glasgow are in favour of primary care emergency centres
	James O'Neil
	BMJ  1996;312:1610 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence-Based Medicine
	Jammi N Rao, J D Middleton
	BMJ  1996;312:1610 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reply from author of review
	John R Absher
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letters pages are essential for peer review
	David H Spodick
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editors' reply
	R Brian Haynes, David L Sackett
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting a job in France is difficult
	P G Cawston
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Myths in medicine
	Adrian Padfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quotation dates from this century, not 1st century
	Walter R Chalmers
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Myths in medicine
	Adrian Padfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Mitterrand's doctor stands trial for breach of secrecy
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:1559 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs want core services defined
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1559-1560 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:1560 [Extract] [Full text]

	General practice reforms agreed in Germany
	Sandra Goldbeckwood
	BMJ  1996;312:1560 [Extract] [Full text]

	Transsexual goes to High Court over operation ban
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1560-1561 [Extract] [Full text]

	EU commissioner clashes with tobacco giant
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;312:1561 [Extract] [Full text]

	Researchers suggest ways to reduce football injury
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:1561-1562 [Extract] [Full text]

	Threat of Tory revolt averted
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:1562 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tasmania's rear guard action
	Simon Chapman, Juliet Richters
	BMJ  1996;312:1562 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Needs for care from a demand led community psychiatric service: a study of patients with major mental illness
	Valerie Murray, Helen W Walker, Caroline Mitchell, Anthony J Pelosi
	BMJ  1996;312:1582-1586 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Father of the man
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:1616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mother knows best
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	De-engineering in the NHS
	C J Dickinson
	BMJ  1996;312:1617 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	De-engineering in the NHS
	C J Dickinson
	BMJ  1996;312:1617 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Human Molecular Genetics
	Grant R Sutherland
	BMJ  1996;312:1619 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research in Health Care
	Henrik Toft Sorensen
	BMJ  1996;312:1619 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Media coverage of the Child B case
	Vikki A Entwistle, Ian S Watt, Richard Bradbury, Lesley J Pehl
	BMJ  1996;312:1587-1591 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting priorities: is there a role for citizens' juries?
	Jo Lenaghan, Bill New, Elizabeth Mitchell
	BMJ  1996;312:1591-1593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing agenda in the NHS
	Bill New
	BMJ  1996;312:1593-1601 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Addison's disease presenting as reduced insulin requirement in insulin dependent diabetes
	Lynne Armstrong, Patrick M Bell
	BMJ  1996;312:1601-1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1620 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A worrying statistic
	G Phillips
	BMJ  1996;312:1586 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A MIRACLE REMEMBERED
	I Kechukwu Obialo Azuonye
	BMJ  1996;312:1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1558 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;312 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	In and out of the brain
	Sean Spence
	BMJ  1996;312:1618 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Living with uncertainty
	Thurstan Brewin
	BMJ  1996;312:1618 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	From the junior staffs conference • Do SHOs have a future? • The English clause must be promoted • The government should act on the loss of doctors • The conference .. • From the local medical committee conference • Out of hours must be priced separately • Conference endorses new GMSC election process • Doctors want to be able to complain against patients • Community care is putting a burden on GPs • There must be more emergency beds • Alternative models of commissioning must be resourced • GPs should be warned about violent patients • GPs question review body's independence • The conference..
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Variability in risk of gastrointestinal complications with individual non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: results of a collaborative meta-analysis
	David Henry, Lynette L-Y Lim, Luis A Garcia Rodriguez, Susanne Perez Gutthann, Jeffrey L Carson, Marie Griffin, Ruth Savage, Richard Logan, Yola Moride, Chris Hawkey, Suzanne Hill, James T Fries, James T Fries
	BMJ  1996;312:1563-1566 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception: questionnaire survey in south east Scotland
	Anna Graham, Lora Green, Anna F Glasier
	BMJ  1996;312:1567-1569 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lifetime exposure to environmental lead and children's intelligence at 11-13 years: the Port Pirie cohort study
	Shilu Tong, Peter Baghurst, Anthony McMichael, Michael Sawyer, Jane Mudge
	BMJ  1996;312:1569-1575 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence and patterns of smoking in Delhi: cross sectional study
	K M Venkat Narayan, S L Chadha, R L Hanson, R Tandon, S Shekhawat, R J Fernandes, N Gopinath
	BMJ  1996;312:1576-1579 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control study of suicide by discharged psychiatric patients
	John A Dennehy, Louis Appleby, Christopher S Thomas, E Brian Faragher
	BMJ  1996;312:1580 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fibrinolytic activity and clotting factors in ischaemic heart disease in women
	T W Meade, J A Cooper, R Chakrabarti, G J Miller, Y Stirling, D J Howarth
	BMJ  1996;312:1581 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fibrinolytic activity and clotting factors in ischaemic heart disease in women
	T W Meade, J A Cooper, R Chakrabarti, G J Miller, Y Stirling, D J Howarth
	BMJ  1996;312:1581 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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