Uniting Health Care With Social Care

Closure of the Grimethorpe pit in 1993 brought with it a range of ills: Grimethorpe was once the second "sickest" British town behind Glasgow. In the early 1990s, the community suffered the stigma of being the second-most deprived community in the UK behind Brixton. Since then there has been an upturn in fortunes, which many trace to the 1996 black comedy film starring Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald and Pete Postlethwaite. The Primary Oaks scheme is the brainchild of Jim Logan, Arthur Scargill's son-in-law and the one-time Grimethorpe colliery manager, who made a study of the Cuban health system. According to Mr Logan, Fidel Castro's health reforms provide a model that the Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, would do well to follow. The Cuban healthcare system is recognised not only as one of the best in the developing world, but also as better in some aspects than those in the developed world. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1876666.ece

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