Five ages of management

Private healthcare on the march

Linda Nazarko

Developing your career in nursing

Robert Newell

Books

Geraldine Swain

■ Improving the patients lot

■ Voices off: tackling the democratic deficit in health

Articles

Alan Earl-Slater

What is Confidential?

Robert Parry

Right plan for elderly care?

Deborah Sturdy, Iain Carpenter

Second place in primary-led care?

Sarah Harvey

Communication breakdown?

Can they understand you?

Sheila Payne, Barbara James

Are some people born dissatisfied?

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Patient-focus pocus?

James Buchan

Sisters under the stress

Joanne Hydes

Nursing management seeks new editor

We can’t make you leaders, warning

Letter

Jim Graham

Expensive special beds may be useless

Profession ‘is losing self-control’

‘Leadership’ is fast becoming the buzzword of the decade