Conference Diary

People skills that work

PFC: stuck at stage one

James Buchan

Managed care scare

Colleen Wedderbum Tate

CPNs in court trap

Jacquie Beese, Jacquie Turnbull

A look up the scope

Judith Wilson, Pat Jones, Jonathan Parkin

The scope comes into clearer focus

Mark Darley

Take-over: One manager’s experience

The buyers: company profiles

King’s Fund ignites the leading lights

Becky Malby

Take cover from the take-overs

Linda Nazarko

Fair shares in practice?

Sandra Legg, Marina Hennessy

Letter

Jane Ball

Executive pay deserves new public image

Unions condemn low top-up levels

Nurse recruitment crisis spreads across the UK

Nursing presence on new confederation

Government plans threaten clinical nurse leaders

Many nurses can be classified as management, and sent to the gallows as corporate- managers-by- proxy. Or can they?

John Naish