4 July 2008

In this week’s Tribune, available by subscription and from selected branches of WHSmith and Borders

Cover story: Special NHS anniversary issue

Anyalysis, diagnosis, prognosis and prescriptions from healthcare professionals, politicians, trade unionists, pundits and patients

News

Unions stave off Labour Party bankruptcy
Lord Darzi’s blueprint promises quality of care amid private profit fears
Scandal of low-pay Lithuanian builders building an NHS hospital
Oil giants get lucrative contacts and their hands on Iraqi oil

Features

Gordon Lishman and Michael Lake: Ending age discrimination
John Lister: Are we going from NHS to DIY?
Geoffrey Goodman: Nye Bevan’s creation replaced fear
Janice Tate: NHS GPs are an endangered species
Suresh Pushpananthan: Is health still Labour’s trump card?
Jill Palmer: Independence would be a health service safeguard

Comment

Oli Usher: NHS now is not so very different from NHS then
Paul Routledge: Cynics brought to book by socialist pioneers
Tribune editorial: Labour’s great achievement must be kept fit for purpose
Marjorie Smith: Doctors lack surgical spirit with bogus claims; David Mills
Letters; Ed Balls: Progressive mission statement for a national challenge
Ian Aitken: How Bevan’s opponents tried to frustrate his vision

Books and Arts

Eddie Coyle: Private profits of doom for the health service?
David Winnick: How pacifists took arms against a sea of troubles
Neil Young: Cinematic colossus disovered among Dalmations
Helen Chappell: Some British trash that we shouldn’t file under rubbish