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7th International Conference on Cancer Nursing weekend symposia

Hope and charity

Computerised tomography

Wendy Jordan

Thallium scanning

Penelope Lowe

The sound revolution

Mark J Monaghan

Magnetic resonance

Elisabeth Barman

Digital imaging

Richard Eato

Editorial

Stephen Thomas

Love never ends

John D Beasley

Self-directed groupwork

Mary Cooke

Healthy ageing

Liz Day

New parents’ fazed returns

Linda Nazarko

Passing the screen test

Grace Lindsay, Dorothy K Bedford, Allan Gaw

Alternative roads to hell?

Fiona Gennis

Points of view

Marlene Sinclair

Information exchange

Theft problems at North West Thames

Dee Borley

Elderly assessment skills under siege

David Barrett

Mental health nurses lack a voice on UKCC

Mandi Lea Richards

Pofessionalism is more than power

S Bello

Serious questions of drug management

Linda Nazarko

Private sector nurses afraid to whistleblow

Margaret Grogan

Assertive nursing requires support

D Brown

Using BS 5750 in health care settings

Steve Casson, Clive George

Patient access to health records

Alzheimer’s disease: advances in genetics

Mary Wilde

Reducing pain and anxiety in children

Lindy May

A portrait of Britain

A healing touch

The Health of the Nation

Mike George

Gut decontamination is not recommended

Elderly should avoid a shampoo-and-stroke

Nurses’ stereotypes and information

Drug achieves remission in ulcerative colitis

Incorrect treatment of older depressed people

Fixed appointments may boost screening uptake

News clinical

Intravaginal disinfection can protect newborns

Hypnosis can be used to investigate emotions

Parliament

News

News In brief

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Practice nurses

Broad support for UKCC proposals

Training scheduled for 23,000 nurse prescribes

Derek Hand

COHSE to highlight back problems in safety week

Nurses urged to exploit communication tools

Health service ‘must learn to allow women flexibility’

News

News in brief

Smith and Nephew 1992 awards total £200,000

News

Access to senior experts is stressed in abuse guidance

Staffordshire nurses respond to Sarajevo appeal

Signing-on forms distributed at fair

600 jobs axed at London hospital trust

Derek Hand

Roe replaces Winterton as new Health Chair

Government moves to widen maternity options

Student nurses ‘deserve a charter and a job’

CNO pledges integration with higher education

Jackie O ’Byrne

Taskforce to advise on development of primary care

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‘Cost confusion’ delays PREP proposals

Derek Hand

Ready, steady... what?

Linda Thomas