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Vive la similarity

Jamie Pearson

Practically useless

Steve Flatt

Spanish practices

Barbara Challiner

A kick up the assessment

Jan Fraser

Outcomes, ethics and accountability

Annie Chellel

Minor injury care in the community

Jones Gary

Improving input to case conferences

Una Warner

Skills on wheels

Susan Northcott

Can nurses be effective advocates?

Sutor Julie-Ann

A textbook and colour atlas of the cardiovascular system

Julie Stockbridge

Perspectives on nursing theory, 2nd edition

Dolan Brian

Sex, health and nutrition

Blackmore Carol

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Johnson Patricia

Information exchange

Alison Smith, Patricia Hamill, D Chtindoo, Tom Anderson, Sue McCarthy

Speaking up in praise of the NVQs

SA Curley

A sad indictment on caring nurses

V Perry

A more imaginative approach to P2000

Patricia Peattie

A change from blinkered views

Darrell Whittle

Options available to hysterectomy

Jill Steele

Refreshing attitude a succinct success

B McCarthy

A degree of restriction

Watson Cheryl

Finished after finals?

Katie Wood

Campaign action

Gall and goodwill

Lorenzo's oil

John Keenan

Smoking associated with risk of graves’ disease

Eye contamination and minor operations

Unmet needs of former psychiatric patients

Indefinite therapies for older depressed people?

Detecting early relapse in chronic Leukaemia

Kate Wood’s corespondence with Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley

Katie Wood, P Corneby

Catching the first post

JO Stockley

In the patient's best interests

Graham Scott

Representative nurses?

News clinical

Sickness absence rates rise in lower grade jobs

‘Self-motivation is key to stopping smoking’

Volatile substances can be deadlier than heroin

News in brief

News in brief

News

Unemployed nurses in Scotland: continuing rise

Cutbacks: UK snapshot

Kate Williams, John Naish, Daniel Allen

Occupational stress is major cause of absenteeism

Misconduct charges dropped agamst ashworth nurses

Prescribing powers could have charges dropped saved community nurses’ time

More nursing cutbacks predicted in London shake-up

Staff side seek meeting after grading talks break down

Unions criticise 1.5 per cent pay rise

Daniel Allen

World news

Children in care: numbers drop

News

Agricultural pesticide under re-examination

Welsh hospital accused of greedy business tactics

Bill Doult

News

Government figures show new highs for waiting lists

Inadequate resources still daunt Project 2000 colleges

HVs told to focus on families in temporary homes

Unions defend casualty programmes

Bottomley accused of giving in over NHS expenditure

Joint union negotiation key to recognition success

Reforms show true state of NHS underfunding

London on hold as P2000 goes national

Black & ethnic minority clients: meeting needs

Chan Thomas Tak Leung

Just my age?

Learning isn’t shameful

ICN News

Roz Osborne

Too little, much too late

Norah Casey