Letter from North America

Robert Dingwall

Preventive practice - part I

Morag Farquhar, Ann Bowling

Personality problem

Relative risks

Brenda Poulton

Doctors, Carers and General Practice

Kate Phillips

Understanding Doctors

James P Smith

Overwhelming response

Listeria/Listeriosis

D Bennett

Avoiding the EN issue

Jenny Rudd

Regrading appeal

Student nurse role playing

Linda Bailey

Practice and perfection

Liz Dinny

Multicultural nursing care

David Muir

The role of the paediatric nurse

Anne King

A climate of change

Justus Akinsanya

The patient’s view

Patricia Byng

Cardiac recovery and rehabilitation

Lynne Holt

Palliative care for cancer patients

Barbara Dicks

A heavy debt

Better by design

Global health effort

Jackie O'Byrne

Cost effective screening for prostate cancer

Foot ulcers in newly diagnosed diabetics

Reducing post-operative complications

Adjustment in breast cancer and receptors

Predictive value of cranial ultrasound

National scheme for earlier immunisation

Number of asthmatics remains underestimated

Cancer treatment for elderly is ‘inadequate’

Romania’s children need your help

Health checks neglect the at-risk patient

Parliament

News in brief

TV safety surveillance of residents ruled out

Local pay deals in NHS Trusts confirmed

Parents’ baby monitoring fears exploited for cash, HVs warn

NUPE campaigning for quality control systems

Huge agency increase worries unions

Timetable in place for districts’ purchasing role

News in brief

Introduction of internal market will be delayed, managers told

Draft deal may weaken pay Review Body role

News in brief

Call for guidelines on radon exposure

Devastation at delay in Welsh P2000

Battling for health

Vi Wagner

The ‘level playing fields’