Dependent territories

Liz Day

Screening the elderly

Angela Huggett

The shape of things to come

Robert Dingwall

Promoting good food and health

Elizabeth Coates, shelagh Palmer

Prescribing realities

Bobbie Saltman

Reproductive health

Sally Haslett

Schooling for change

Valerie Dodds

Primary health care

Maura McNally, Roger Evans, Tony Fleetwood, Phyllis Holbrook, Vi Wagner, Ben Brazellc, Bernie Callan

Opening race

V i Wagner

Improving health education

Susan Haywood

Getting things straight

J Dale

Casualties of closure

John Greene

Contracts of employment

P R Hill

Recruitment: the challenge

Nursing targets for action in 1991

Mental handicap and HIV: the issues

Brian Kay

The problems facing men as health visitors

Andrew Barton

A complete guide to what’s on in nursing nationwide

Recent venous ulcer treatments

Jill A David

Nursing revolution

No Mr Average

Unique initiative in Yorkshire

A conflict in embryo

Prejudice and bigotry

Facts, please

Diagnosing pelvic pain with ultrasound

Microhaematuria: does microscopy mislead?

Open access to gastroscopy services

Transdermal route offers advantages

Angioplasty without surgical back up

Feeder system wins ingenuity award

Smoking may cause stomach ulcers

Penicillin may cause premature labour

Call for standardised pre-term classification

Cholesterol countdown campaign launch

Parliament

News in brief

World health organization

World news

YTS success stories begin after school

‘Nurses won over to YTS benefits’

Boost for ward trainee initiative

Three new RCN Fellows elected

Nursing failure led to neglected death

HA fined for hepatitis B omission

News

Leukaemia risk: ‘nurses must act’

Access bill given nursing support

Avalanche kills Brompton’s education director

Northern Ireland faces strategy challenge

Call for abolition of prison medical service and its transfer to the NHS

Bill spells ‘savage drop’ in budgets

Death leads to King’s review of facilities

Boycott threat leads to resignation

Health authorities face pay and policing costs

John Naish

Charting the stormy seas

VI Wagner

Winners and losers

Norah Casey