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Camden New Journal - Forum: Opinion in the CNJ
Published: 11 June 2009

State of our health service will have Aneurin Bevan turning in his grave

The policy of contracting out services from the renamed primary care trust, NHS Camden, will encourage private companies to cherry-pick potentially profitable parts, argues retired GP Robert MacGibbon

I AM a retired General Practitioner... > more

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Talacre raises questions on consultation and planning
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Homes money is there, so let’s take up the PM’s offer
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Danger is, we’ll be saying goodbye to all post offices
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How to cut the feet from under far right parties
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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We must build up the pressure on PM for more housing

IT couldn’t have been put more concisely when Hampstead MP Glenda Jackson wrote in the Independent on Tuesday that what the BNP fear most is a “social housing revolution”.
By building homes and providing jobs, voters will turn back to Labour – or to other all-inclusive parties. > more

Swimming is healthier than baking in the sun - MAY I add an observation or two to Dan Carrier’s article? > more

What chance for GPs in bidding? - I FEEL increasingly anxious about many of the changes that are going on, in secret, in our local health services. > more

A journey too far to get Jack to school? - I WAS so sorry to read that a two-mile journey seems a journey too far for Dr Liz Taylor and her lovely son to travel to school... > more

Parents and places - YOUR suggestion that somehow Conservatives are blocking a resolution of the primary school places issue in the wider Belsize area... > more

High cost of helicopters - I WAS really glad to see the letter (Chopper police keep me awake, June 4) as the Belsize area is also affected by this noise. > more

Help fight biggest killer - I HAVE just signed the British Heart Foundation’s petition demanding a clear plan for tackling heart and circulatory conditions... > more

Last of the literary dinosaurs? - SIMON Wroe’s fabulous piece about Dr Fred Grubb, poet, critic and inveterate past walker through the plains of France... > more

High costs of temporary accommodation policy - YOUR anonymous correspondent shows an all too common lack of understanding about local government finance. > more

Way to beat the crunch - OVER several months you have carried much information regarding the credit crunch and difficulties faced by many local people. > more