Foot notes

Intermittent self-catheterisation

Rachel Barton

Primary mental health care: whose role is it anyway?

Frances Badger, Peter Nolan

Patient assessment and care planning: sexuality

Peter Gregory

Responsive assessment of clinical competence: part 1

Mary Neary

The care of older people

Amanda Clarke, Elizabeth Hanson, Helen Ross

Correction

And you thought your work was stressful

Dave Sulton

Drug names in HIV treatment

Alison Sutton

Children's tours of A&E have proved a big hit

Caroline Williams

It's disgraceful to deny older people personal care

Linda Nazarko

Profession has to fight for control of nursing care

Bob Tozer

HCA is a different job, but we're on the same team

Diana Orr

Who's got money to burn?

Tiggy Ansell

Sit back and enjoy

Ethnography in nursing research

Not making a drama out of a crisis

Joanna Bruce-Jones

Why regulate?

Helen Caulfield

The right to decide

Cosia Brykczynska

Ask the experts

'Tis the season

Paul Jebb, Stephen Weeks, Marie John

Spotting diabetes

Talking toilets

Cris Allen

Raising the standard

Stephen Griffin

Face down your fears

Jennifer Percival

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Reforms are on target

James Buchan

Under the sun

Bremer Zoe

Eat your heart out

Suzannah Olivier

They make you question your views

Step by step

John Dobson

Comparing notes

Ailsa Bell, Peter Priestley

Brighton flock

Getting in on the Act

Pat Healy

For richer for poorer

Roger Bushby

Tests detect STls without using physical examination

Asthma admission less likely in twins than singletons

Challenging behaviour may point to H pylori infection

‘Leaky’ antibiotics pose risk of bacterial cross-infection

Colleges are failing equality test

Loud and clear

Nurses afraid to use their transcultural knowledge

Seamus Ward

News in brief

Spanish recruits will plug the gaps

NICE agrees to reconsider beta-interferon proposals

Graham Scott

On the move

Eye-opener

Modern terms ʻstifle criticismʼ

Poor response to prescribing

Alliances could offer better care

Nurses warned the public is losing faith in regulation

Counting the cost of flooding

Trust ʻcondonedʼcruel abuse of older patients

Pat Healy

New act puts UKCC hearings on hold

Call for 52 weeks paid maternity leave for working mothers in NHS

Employment agency offers top service

Luke-warm welcome for cost of living supplements

Nick Lipley, Graham Scott

New pay system will not be settled before election

Pat Healy

Meagre benefits from tax changes

Self-management low in asthma

Direct action in US dispute

New-style education is a winner

NHS agency deserves success

Linda Thomas