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The patient paradox: why sexed-up medicine is bad for your health

01 December 2012

Nursing Management

Book Review

I WOULD like to meet Margaret McCartney, the Glasgow GP and author of this provocative book, who writes with conviction against the value of modern medical...

Managing the new GP contract

01 October 2003

Nursing Management

Opinion

THE GP vote in June to accept the new general medical services (GMS) contract was extremely positive. But there is a huge, somewhat daunting, amount of work to be...

Permitting parking

16 October 1996

Nursing Standard

Comment

MANY OLDER people remember with affection living in a time when traffic jams and car parking tickets were unheard of. 'Ehey also remember the local community nurse...

Applications invited for third-wave PMS pilots

28 June 2000

Nursing Standard

Letter

The government is increasing the number of personal medical services (PMS) pilots in primary health care.

Scholarships for nurse working in the field of tb

19 July 2005

Nursing Standard

Letter

Kelvin Karim highlights the chief medical officer’s action plan, Stopping Tuberculosis in England, as having ‘some laudable aims on modernising TB services’, but...

The biggest threat

18 November 2008

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Some experts on catastrophic events believe the number one risk to humankind is not terrorism or global warming, but pandemic flu.

Greening our district nurses

15 July 1989

Nursing Standard

Letter

I would like to raise again some of the issues highlighted in your Green Care campaign as it relates to district nurses who, I feel, hove an important part to play...

District nurses

04 February 1989

Nursing Standard

Letter

I was interested to read your article on regional pay (week ending January 28).

The district nurse

04 April 1990

Nursing Standard

The district nurse

Last July, Kenneth Clarke announced that district nurses would remain within the employment of the health authorities and be responsible for the caring of 'ill'...

Points of View

07 May 1991

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint

Pauline Fielding writes in Soapbox ('Into the Community’, Nursing Standard March 27) 'that community services in general, and nursing in particular, are central to...