Listings

Parkinson’s disease

Sheila Roy, Liz Redfern

Assessment and measurement of competence in practice

Maggie Fearon

Risk factors for hypertension and cardiovascular disease

Cliff Roberts, Maggie Banning

Change theory and health promotion

Ann Baird

Parkinson’s disease and the role of nurse specialists

Noble Carolyn

Rewind

Novel cure for hiccups; saliva and HIV; and risk of necrotising colitis in infants

Guard against „ viral infection

Informed infection control practice

Making the most of a special year

Mike Smith

Name games

FO Ettinger, Colleen Wedderburn Tate, Jimmy Nook, Chris Bassett, Christopher Humm

Healthy diet helps healing

Stan Duncan

The poverty trap

Christopher Jones

No comfort is poor care

Joanne McCue

Seeing is believing

Sue Arnold

Ticking bomb

Ian McMillan

Sidelines

Breaking down boundaries

Adele Waters

Putting it on the record

Jack Shamash

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G Perry, Penny Dobson, Terry Adams, J M Tanner, Susan Riddell

Obituary

Denise Rock

Obituaries

Monica Baly

New rules will not be used until 1999

Vicky Stephnison

Why do MPs get a decent rise, not us?

MC Holman

Demands grow but rewards do not

Humm Christopher

Time for action on our pay

Simon Green

A pay rise should reflect our position

Jayne McClenaghan

Less pay should mean less work

PJ Kolb

Pay us for the new skills we acquire

Jayne McClenaghan

News in brief

£R's super nurse is bad role model, says chief

Mental health nurse wins £1,000 award

Setback for launch of NHS phone helpline

Hancock in call to combat stress

Assault most common in elderly care wards

Dina Leifer

News

On the move

Waiting lists are on the way up

More staff needed in psychiatric care units

Jack Shamash

News

News in brief

UKCC gets extra time

'Smart cards' on the way

News

Religious charity is set to run hospitals

Mark Gould

News in brief

News

Trust brings back Whitley contracts

Pay negotiators upset over incomplete offer

Adele Waters

Much of the time nurses are oblivious to the fact that the work they are doing is in any way extraordinary

Linda Thomas