Abstract
This is the first in a series of articles in which the political influences on the health service are examined. Niall Dickson, currently Social Affairs Editor with the BBC, gave this paper at Congress 1999 - which had the overall theme of Rewind, Pause, Fastforward. Niall Dickson is a former editor of Nursing Times (1983-1988) and he has a continuing interest in matters affecting health and social policy.
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