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Nurse practitioners: professional push or patient pull?

01 April 1995

Nursing Management

Nurse practitioners: professional push or patient pull?

Amid the hurly-burly of the last Christmas rush, the results of an important study into nurse practitioners were announced. Commissioned by the former South East...

RCN needs to balance union remit with professional roles

19 August 2015

Nursing Standard

Letter

The interview with outgoing RCN general secretary Peter Carter (features, August 5) set me thinking about the crucial roles the RCN needs to play in support of...

All right on the day?

19 July 1995

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint healthy debate

Sixty per cent of surgical interventionsare currentlyundertaken in theUSA on a daycasebasis - similar predictions aremade for the UK by the year2000

Informed choices on breast feeding and infant formula

01 November 1988

Primary Health Care

Infant feeding

Eminent child psychologist, author and specialist in child development Dr Penelope Leach, in a recent talk to nurses, midwives and parents at the Rotunda Hospital in...

Preparing for the inevitable

01 April 1989

Primary Health Care

Comment

The war of the medics against the Government’s proposals to reform the health service has begun to hot up. The British Medical Association, in an unprecedented move,...

Abuse and care

01 June 1989

Primary Health Care

Comment

Abuse of any description, whether it is inflicted on humans or animals, offends and shocks in any civilised society. Witness the public outrage when a child is the...

Son of Griffiths

01 July 1989

Primary Health Care

Comment

The sceptics who have been at pains to convince us over the past 18 months that the Griffiths Report on Community Care (1) has been long since dead and buried could...

Co-operation in the community

01 May 1989

Primary Health Care

Comment

Interprofessional working of doctors, nurses and social workers took on a whole new meaning for a group of eminent professionals attending a conference on the future...

Radical but realistic

13 May 1989

Nursing Standard

Feature

The Chairman of the Community Nursing Review for Wales, Mrs Noreen Edwards CBE, in her letter to Mr Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Wales, which accompanied the...

Family health

01 October 1999

Nursing Management

Special focus

THE EUROPEAN Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a new public health policy document, entitled Health 21: Health for All Policy...