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Children and families first in short term care

Violette Sinnett

Contracting for care

David Sines

Total quality in education

Robert Hallawell

Let’s value each other

Trevor Flatts

Challenges in emergency nursing: a self-study review

Julie Stockbridge

Elder care: family training and support

Gill Garrett

Quality: for those who care

Maureen Benbow

Can the ideal become real?

Barry Clifton

Corresponding with truth

Christopher Goodall

Mr Pink: management’s story

Peter Milnes

Information exchange

Relative care not wanted

Eve palmer

Misconceptions about alopecia

Margaret Felstead

To Sponge or not to sponge?

Amanda sadler

Hands on? it’s a man’s life

Neil Moore

A question of spiritual faith

Sandra Laythorpe

In support of urinary diversions

Rachel Leaver

Is the title really that important?

Tony Wright

The need for proper teachears

Susan Taylor

Nurse education in the sultanate of Oman

Aboo Rashid Jeetun

Rehabilitation: a progressive approach

Debbie Murdock

The nurse’s role in workplace assessment

Christine Meusz

Compression hosiery in a surgical unit

Patricia Smith

A piecemeal approach to accident prevention

Mike George

Students at the sharp end

Heading for the hills

June Andrews

Scanning goes into the third dimension

Call for ban on skin lightening cream

Fluoxetine for severe premenstrual syndrome

Amitriptyline for pain control

Benefits and costs of high dose cisplatin

Sex abuse survivors may avoid having Pap smear

News in brief

World news

Who calls for ‘revolution’ in battle against cancer

Children do feel pain, says expert

News

News

Managers must be experts in health

Tamoxifen trial for cancer may reduce coronary risk

Specialties to match health care needs

Call for action on equality

Seventh international conference on cancer nursing

Us elections

New child hib vaccine

News

Lack of information hampers progress

Special care services for homeless people

New appointment for nursing homes

Day surgery

Nurses spurred to action on dwindling elderly care

New resource book

Education must not develop in isolation

Prescription charges

High levels of drug misuse by Scottish nurses revealed

News

Education

Regional health authorities facing the axe?

Funding crisis spreads outside London

Clinical directorates ‘will fail patients’

NHS trusts

Disciplinary action for whistleblowers

Speak out at your peril

Norah Casey