Conference diary

Performance management and appraisal in health services

Managing change in the NHS

Trudy Upton, Bernard Brooks

Research and development in the NHS: evidence, evaluation and effectiveness

Mark Baker, Simon Kirk

The healthcare management handbook

Keith Holdaway

A way forward

Tom Keighley

Dependent on change

Linda Nazarko

Focus on the benefits

James Buchan

A world of difference - but for how long?

Sarah Robinson, Trevor Murrels, Louise Marsland

The team’s the thing

Marie Wheatley

Mental health care - gone astray?

Jacquie Turnbull, Jacquie Beese

Fix the skill mix

Alastair McElroy, David Rogers, Murial Smith

Just for the record

Georgina Coldwell, Steve Page

Developing managers for the future

Les Storey

So you’d like an award for quality...

Phil McSweeney

Managing a health and safety policy

Linda Shelmerdine

News from the UK central council

More CPNs needed

50,000 fewer nurses working in NHS

Movements around the UK

New editorial team for Nursing Management

Shortages at the sharp end

Editorial

Tom Keighley