Stephen Thomas, Clinical Nurse Consultant, King’s College Hospital, continues his series

Caring for Someone with AIDS

Charlotte Alderman

Healing: Fiction, Fantasy or Fact?

Tony Gillam

Eating your heart out: the emotional meaning of eating disorders

Christine Halek

Conceptual models of nursing

Douglas Middleton

From research to practice

Sharon Withnell

When in doubt, do nowt

John Naish

Labouring a novel attack

John Naish

Tory Rag

John Naish

Is screening just cosmetic?

Peter Bradshaw

A vision for nursing

Charting our course

Pam Marshall

Blissful ignorance

Meeting the target

Disabling Diseases

Chris Eberhardie

When the wrong people are promoted

Daniel Lim

Crossword

Information exchange

Mary Clasper

Ted Clough steps down from RCN

Denis Sunderland

Budget-slashers take over NHS

Why are nurses unsure of role?

Liz Smith

Letter

Nursing faces training backlog

Kitson Alison

Sampling: who and how many?

Charman Liz

New focus on mental health in old age

McEvoy Patrick

Duchenne muscular dystrophy testing

Teresa Barby

Asthma: a hidden disease of our times

Andrew Nocon, Tint Booth

Guidelines for infection control

Hart Sarah

Steps towards protection

June Thompson

From strength to strength

Panel meets to pick champion nurses

Value for money?

Researchers hit on gallstone treatment

Scanning link improves emergency management

Immunoglobulin ‘buzz’ , and hazardous effects

‘Coffee cup’ masks help wheezy babies

Outpatients could provide donor records

Cholesterol tests ‘second best option’

Lifestyle changes may reverse atherosclerosis

Blood transfusion in utero for hydrops

Scalding threat to croup children

World news

News in brief

Parliament

News in brief

Hot spell causes a spate of accidents

Health Department breaks promise

Internal market slowing overseas opportunities

News in brief

More clarity for opt-out agreements

Concern at drive for midwifery membership

Mixed feelings over minister for women

Nursing jobs may be threatened by merger

Patient care

News

Nurse tutors lose out after training courses

1988 industrial action leads to investigation

Call for independent monitoring of reforms

Unions welcome career breaks for NHS staff

News

News

Students’ hopes dashed by lack of posts

Racism in health service a waste, says report

Report probes problems in provision of nurses

News

Nursing survey

Vote finds in favour of models - just

Nurses show basic ‘lack of knowledge’

The use and abuse of models

Norah Casey