VOX pop purchasing

Richard K Ryland

Look who’s sorry now

Ros Lowe

Teaching in turmoil

Anne Spencer

Publications

Making competition in healthcare work

Elizabeth Olmsted, Michael Porter, Gregory Brown

The theory-theory gap: the challenge for nurse teachers

Andrea Dale

Going inter-professional: working together for health and welfare

The hard-pressed researcher: a research handbook for the caring professions

The A-Z of applied quality for clinical managers in hospitals

Chains for the better

Phil Me Sweeney

Cash in the community

Derek Blackshaw

Why your budget doesn’t add up

David Bailey

Paying for performance

James Buchan

The Risk Business

Tony Ryan

Conference diary

Numbers nonsense

Alan Maynard

An infectious argument

News in brief

Lift offered onto superhighway

Rumour manager crusades against hearsay

More power to the fundholders

NHS trusts chase nursing contracts in Germany

New trust nursing directors lack suitable experience

Editorial

John Naish