A course of action

Catherine Parker

Foil packed blood glucose strips

Inflatable pillows for managing bed sores

Patch treatment for phlebitis

Eye occlusors in two sizes

Insecticidal gel to kill of pests

Computerised antenatal screening

Baby wipes with skin conditioners

It's a knockout!

Double trouble

Flaky fodder

A meaty role

Biting remarks

Cock and bull

Watchdog

Phyllis Holbrook

Australia

France

Tigray

Mountain man

Matthews David

Computing communications

Bargainingpoint

Rebecca Melby, Sally Gooch, Steve Wright, John Atkinson, Neil Stewart

Open access

D A Bennion

Bewildered

AJ Mackay

Charge sisters

Rose Mackle

Off course

Jacquie Mander

Carrying the fight

Sue Haworth

Outpatient anger

R J Miller

Student grants

Clothing issue

Els Keane

How to... do research

Hamish Thomson

Relaxation and Imagery

Tim Crossfield

A century of change

Caroline Richens

Nutrition and the Kidney

Mary Taylor

Nursing and the Neurosciences

Chris Eberhardie

Getting to know you

Gillian Wills, Steve Wright

Can primary nursing work?

Listings

History of dialysis

Smoke screens

Diana Sanders, John Marzillier

Leukaemia spotting IT and TR eating it

Coming of age

Daloni Carlise

The menopause and hormone replacement therapy

Alan Riley

Under discussion

Earlier this month, Virginia Henderson, described by Trevor Clay as the greatest nurse since Florence Nightingale, opened the new RCN Northern Ireland Board Education Centre in Belfast. She spent an evening 'in conversation' with Trevor Clay in front of an invited audience. In the second half of a two part series, Nursing Standard prints excerpts from that interview

News in brief

Experts moot urgent rethink of child care

Cot deaths linked to unemployment

Clinical news

Underscoring nutrition

Stemming community care costs

Deciding on health care

Calcium's contribution

Reducing rejection

Sleep tight

Mastectomy or conservation?

Burning issues

Labour attacks housing cuts

More privatisation urged by industry chief

Making medicine easier to swallow

GPs criticised on homeless care

Concern over aids hospice provision

Bulletin clinical grading

Surrey

South birmingham

Oxford

City & hackney

Government takes tough [illegible word] on protests

Kenneth Clarke

Anger, action and appeals

Penalised for expertise

Rosemary Pope

A change in perspectives

In praise of the trainee

More than meets the eye

Nursing groups slam income support increase

Who owns what?

Spreading the benefits

Florence nightingale on nursing the well

Hyper active

United States

Lothian

News in brief

Recognition for elderly

Stepping up healthcare for ethnic minorities

News

New plans for special hospitals and NHS

Random HIV testing call

Auxiliaries membership likely

President pledges support

News

Subscription increase

Membership boom claimed

NHS manpower predictions

UKCC council attacks DoH consent guidelines

Health secretary's unappealing remarks

Friern hospital fire fatalities

Special interest group

Calls of concern

Militant intimidation

Nurses register their anger

Unions split

In search of the 'perfect' nurse

Maggie Tatham

Dancing to another tune

Anthony Byrne

A right to justice

Norah Casey