International

‘The highest standards of service and staff•••’

Nursing ethics IV: Theories and principles

Verena Tschudin, Bernard Farr

Share and share alike

Wendy Hall

Don’t call me stupid

Ian Peate

The diet dictators

Linda Hollings

Must do better

Helen Hally

Universal challenge

Malcolm Rae

More and more of the letters we receive are anonymous. viewpoint editor, Daniel Allen takes an understanding view of this paranoia

Baptism by fire

Roger Cowell

Cosmetic surgery

Cairie Howse

Hands off experience

Julie Aubrey

Nursing students should stop moaning

Mistrust of NVQs justified

Charlie Dunn

...but then again, maybe not

Teri Murhpy

Support and care lessens suicide risk

Claudia Tomlinson

Reflexology can help dysmenorrhoea

Ruth Guangyu

Cooksley victim of market ethics

Patricia M Chandler Welting, Kent

UKCC right in Cooksley case

Jim Glen

Action on ralph not strong enough

Derek Dean

Leg ulcer treatments: a critical review (Part 2)

Nicky Cullum

Meeting the needs of neglected patients

Julie Repper, Rachel Perkins

Revision surgery for joint replacements

Paul Wicker

Programme for NVQ mimes the grade

Norman McClelland

Personalising the service

Connie Hudson

Racial discrimination a problem for health service in Scotland

Aiex Mathieson

New ‘flexible’ IANE to go regional

Charlotte Alderman

Division over Cooksley

Simon Canning

Euroquan comes of age

Fay Buglass

Enteral feeding versus TPN after transplant

New generation anticoagulants in sight?

Long-term effects of budesonide in asthma

Music soothes the savage surgeon’s breast

Information exchange

One-stop quality

Nordic Bibliography of Nursing Quality Assurance and Standards of Care 1980-1991 (Nordisk Bibliografi om Standarder og Kvalitetssikring sygeplejen 1980-1991)

Karen Bjoro

Unison calls for investigation into financial affairs of private hospital in Glasgow

Cardiology award goes to a nurse

Lifestyle is a factor in breast cancer survival rates

Depression rife among Ugandan nurses, AIDS conference is told

Charlotte Alderman

Italian government to use unemployed to staff hospitals

Programmable pumps for people who can’t cope alone

News in brief

Stand up for nursing, men are told

Trust rent increases cause hardship for student nurses

‘Scrap GP banding’

Labour debate health issues

24-hour crisis service urged for London

Reinstatement call for nurse sacked after smacking child

Towards quality in Luxembourg

Claude Kuffer

£1.2m meant for nurse education is left unspent

Five-person committee to resolve Ralph dispute named

New Trust launched to help bereaved parents

Health visitors’ morale hits new low

Hospitals alerted over plague carriers

Call for guidelines on pay

Nursing project leaders named

Bottomley backtracks on local pay

Passport to quality

Nurse training helped in ferry tragedy

Industrial action threat for PRP

Excitement and concern at launch of nurse prescribing

Bank nurses to be used for measles vaccination campaign in schools

Simon Canning

News in brief

Nursing quality in Sweden

Eva Hellung Strobl

Concerted action on quality

Karen Bjoro, Bjorn Haraldsen

Quality issues and nursing education

Ragnheidur Haraldsdottir

Address to Euroquan representatives by Manolis Scoulakis, Greek Deputy Minister of Health, welfare and social security

Euroquan united

Co-operation for quality

Fay Buglass

Editoral

Norah Casey