Putting audit into practice

Pam Hibbs

Hyper

So you want to do audit...

Jane Salvage

How the doctors do it

Charles Shaw

Organising donations

Noble Sara

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: ‘a procedure of choice’

Disposal of medical waste: the problems continue to increase

New multi chair gives elderly disabled new lift

Advanced respiratory monitor now available

New pressure unit gives readings from a finger

Stylish outlook for new range eyewear

Free colour chart for diabetics

Products

Stretching the flexibility of presentation boards

Encouraging user compliance

Arthroscopy

Karen Fraser

Diary strictly off the record

The history of the NATN

Ron Thompson

Watchdog

Holbrook Phyllis

Health visiting - northern Ireland

A time of change

Ron Thompson

Foreign round up

Helping hands

All at sea

Pioneering spirit

Answers to last week’s crossword

A tribute to Douglas

Rebecca Malby, Sally Gooch, Steve Wright, John Atkinson

Information exchange

P Medlin

Making sense

Foot note

M Paynton

Teamwork carries the ball

Rosemary Walker

Support for the non-graduate

Ellen Bridges

Midwives can afford bank

Jacqueline Filkins

Courses outweigh job performance

R Benjamin

Balloon pumps

Robert G Lockhart

Nit picking

Christine M Roberts

To the editor...

Derek Blackshaw

Bad insurance

John Boyce

London boundaries

LR Evans

Eye screen

J King, M Spencer

Care paper

Rhiannon Williams

Devise a questionnaire

Crossfield Tim

AIDS A Strategy for Nursing Care

Howard Wood

Counselling Skills for Nurses, 2nd edition

Paul Mangan

Theatre Nursing

Eileen Scott

Nursing Research: A Skills-Based Introduction

Tony Harrison

Springhouse Drug Reference

Julie Rivett

Nurse Education

Yvonne Willmott

The Medicine Chest

Eva Garland

Pain control

Lesley pemperton

Focus

Mersey RHA

Evaluating health visiting practice

Brenda Poulton

A gut reaction

Models in accident and emergency

Lynn Ali

Living with stoma

Gillian Little

Mobilising health care

Doreen Studdart

Listings

Practice and the prospect for change

Marjorie Gott, Martin O’Brien

Learning to lose?

Roslin Fraser

Anaemia

Diabetes care in general practice

Mary MacKinnon

Heading West

Is ‘high tech’ worth it?

Gavin Mooney

Socialisation and the nurse

Jenny Bentley

Reviewing the situation

Elizabeth Tornquist

Proposed regional pay variations rapped

Legislation on HIV do-it-yourself kits

Expanded private health care mooted

COSHH regulations to protect workers

Labour levels neglect charge at government

Liverpool, a community setting

New contraceptive?

Minimising unplanned pregnancies

Preterm predictions

Increasing resistance

Alzheimer’s disease

A group experience

Tony Taylor

Looking for the right candidate

In Brief

Reassurance for cardiac patients

Community care in action

Preventing and treating osteoporosis

Team co-operation the answer to spinal injury care

Community nurses should support home TPN care

My escape from Kuwait

Treating hypertension during pregnancy

Effects on platelet count with interleukin

Asthma treatment by ambulance crews

Pulling the plug on hair loss for men

Reducing risk of herpes in infants

National chest week to raise public awareness

Syphilis cases are increasing in the US

Dyskaryosis tests find a high cancer risk

Call for better data on low-weight births

News in brief

‘Caring for Romania Appeal’

News in brief

World news

News

News In brief

Peak flow meters now on prescription

‘Political will needed’ to ensure nurse prescribing

New guide to healthy lifestyles launched

News

Labour promises non-market NHS

Health service ‘ignores safety laws’

Patient crimes: RCN seek rule amendment

News

Court case to settle grading appeal?

Gulf-bound nurses could be armed

News

Haemophiliacs will win compensation battle

News in brief

Call to increase security after nurses attacked

News

Parliamentary support for Lothian nurses

Walk out over Project 2000 ‘shambles’

Jackie O'Byrne

Born to write

Norah Casey