Courses

■ Finding and keeping the right people

Commissioning skills

■ Understanding trauma, grief And loss

Asthmagen? - critical assessments of the evidence for agents implicated in occupational asthma

Updated guidance on health and safety management for use in the health service

■ Child protection registers: Statistics for wales 1997

■ Mental health promotion: a Quality framework

■ Hepatitis - guidelines from the Royal college of nursing

■ Skill mix in primary care

Sue Jenkins-Clarke, Roy Carr-Hill, Paul Dixon, Mike Pnngle

■ Reporting public health

Ann Davies

■ Turning evidence into everyday practice

■ The work of volunteers in home care services for terminally ill people

■ Essential environmental Management for health service providers

■ Conflict in practice

■ Managing medicine: A survival guide

Troubleshooting in general practice

The health address book: A directory of health support groups

■ Concentration and choice in Healthcare markets

■ Introduction to strategic Marketing for health and social services

Challenging the future

Irene Scott

Janet monkman the interview

Coping with job loss

June Girvin

Nursing militancy

Mick McKeown, Mark Stowell Smith, Bernard Foley

Workforce planning

David Benton

Confidential matters

Bashyr Aziz

Pointers to the future

June Girvin

Corporates come of age

Linda Nazarko

Expanded commissions

Alan Cudworth

Nurses absent from debate on continuing care for older people

Editorial

Tom Keighley