Contributing to the journal

Part of a community

Anita Pati

Patient safety: leading improvement

Mike Williams, Jane Reid

Practice development in healthcare service reform

Helen Chin, Ben Totterdell

Here’s looking at you

Christian Duffin

Advanced practice in nursing: from concept to reality

Marie Cerinus, Paul Wilson

Web scan

Diary

Ask the experts

Who Decides Who. Decides?

Ian Peate

An introduction to excellence in practice development in health and social care

Marion Goodchild

Nursing Today: Transition and trends

Jennifer Hunt

Theatre nurse shortages

Michael Parker

Finding the right candidate

Susan Williams

Social enterprise

Karen Reay

New horizons

Barbara Stuttle

Reality TV inspires hospital staff to put patients in the hot seat

Ward sister role under scrutiny

News in Brief

Younger patients undergo hip and knee replacement surgery

‘Superbug supremo’ to oversee random hospital inspections

New guidance issued on practice-based commissioning

On the move

More freedom for nurses to run healthcare services

Nick Lipley

Staying upbeat in the downturn

Donna Kinnair