Developing leadership skills

Practice based commissioning

Mental health nursing

Consultant nursing

Future leaders

NHS careers

Conferences

Difficult encounters

Linda Finlay

The Study Bank: an annualised hours system for staff development

Steve Andrews

Coaching for clinicians

John Driscoll, Rachel Cooper

Charting a new course

Sue Hopkins, Michelle Freeman, Mark Hill, Carol Levery

A magical factor

Philomena Corrigan

Tipping the scales

Vicky Bailey

Amanda Hallums

On the move

Vantage point

Jenny Kay

Dynamic teams and team dynamics

Thelma Agnew

Unison election

Website launched

Honour bound

Community matrons to pilot training scheme

Nick Lipley

National service framework for long term conditions honour bound

Charge nurses to train as ‘cleanliness champions’

Survey underlines need for imminent action on IT

Nick Lipley

Editorial

Katherine Fenton