Prescribing a liberal dose for the NHS

Calum Paton

Springboard to success

Fiona Hastings, Rosemary Robinson

Swapping over roles

Ros Lowe

Unravelling the tightrope tensions

Ann Young

Conference diary

Power to the real people

Colleen Wedderbum Tate

Sharing the advantages

James Buchan

You’ve got change in your pocket

June Andrews

Performance purchasing

David C Benton

Books

D W Hill, R Summers

Factors affecting job satisfaction of nurses who work in long-term care

Katherine Carr, Mary Kazanowski

Education tools

Giving voice to patients in London: the views of Londoners on the future of their health service

Jill Russell, Geraldine Pettersson, Jean Davies

Raising the standards for children in surgery

Christine Hogg

Reports

Nancy Kohner

Professional codes: an exercise in tokenism

Vic Tadd

Moores’ Almanack

News in Brief

New education centre to iron out boards

Managers to be made accountable on race

Clarke shoos Redwood’s bureaucracy claims as a fit-up

Organisations unite to push mental nursing leadership

Shadowing the key to success

IHSM reveals draft management conduct guidelines

In the real world of healthcare the letter of the UKCC conduct code can sometimes be as realsitic as a 29 mph motorway speed limit

John Naish