Hetty Wainthropp: a woman of today

Pat Young

Still Rockin’!

NVQs in Nursing and Residential Homes

Judith Brown

Counselling Older Adults: Perspectives, Approaches and Research

Hazel Heatb

New publications

Letters

Karolina Bradley, Gerry McCarthy

Letters

Janet Gray

Letters

J Stanton Cedar

Events

Nursing care is health care

Brendan McCormack

Shortfall in mental health nurses

James F Marr

Stretched to breaking point

Linda Nazarko

Perception is a funny thing

Thelma Harley

Community care: the german experience

Ursula Pac-Soo

Fire detection system

Foam overlays

Nature’s own fragrances

Incontinence pads

Adhesive film dressing

Nurse station console

Top loading bedpan washer

Mobility vehicles on offer

Lightweight, user design

Pressure relieving gel cushion

Toilet and bidet in one

Tilt in space facility

Watertight seal for casts

Easy opening dessert

Therapeutic seating system

Formance Nutritional Supplement

Europa chairs

Remmedi Compression Hosiery

Gerald Simonds Wheelchairs

News in brief

Drug bulletin

Excessive use of drugs in homes

AM McGrath, GA Jackson

Resources

Alternative Solution

Turning a House into a Home

Ruth Sander

Families of the Mentally Ill

Peter V Hasler

Psychosocial aspects of chemotherapy in cancer care: The patient, family and staff

Trevor Adams

Sleep and Ageing

Doreen Norton

Elizabethan times and the Poor Laws

A new beginning

Night school

As time goes by

Claire Quantock, Jan Beynon

A glimpse behind the curtain

Steve Wright

Holding forth

Difficulties on site

Marie Knott

In favour of mobility

Lesley Stockton

Never too late

June Andrews

Improving hospital care

Gill Garrett

A spot of recreation

Escape to the past

Joyce Lemboye

All change at Chiswick

A question of health

Genetics, chromosomes and the elderly patient

June Andrews

Diary

Care of urinary catheters

Kathryn Getliffe

Residential care and nursing home opens in Merseyside

Flight of fancy

’Hard line’ stance in contracting care

Plight of carers highlighted

New community centre for York

International Congress

Comprehensive guide to services launched

Bus improvements to aid elderly

Help needed for winter fuel bills

Call to increase staffing numbers in homes

News in brief

Guide to good practice

Pensioners rally for long term care

A new guide for carers

Foundation for financial hardship

Hospital closure threatens care scheme for mentally infirm

Report criticises long term health care

No hiding place

Linda Thomas