International

Advancing in confusion

Dean Holyoake

Is there life outside the NHS?

Sybil Whiston

Readers panel - If were Mr Dorrell

Gail Kilbane, Maggie Kirk, Gerry McDermott, Nicky Keel, Nicholas Davies, Kath Lowe, Brenda Meakins, Ian Llewellyn-Nash, FO Ettinger

Personal tutors have a role to play

Nothing to declare

Vic Tadd

Information exchange

Insult to cardiac nurses

Judith Willis, Neil Green, Ann Wilson

Parental responsibilty

Maureen Schofield

An instant guide to management speak

Christine Johnson

Animal welfare - a low priority

John Nicholas

Biological sciences undervalued

Sally Nethercott

RNMH skills not sold down the river

Nickie Lawson

Abortion is not the key issue

Angela Kennedy

Thank you for coverage of crisis

Steve Akers

The occupational health team is not there to police staff

Catriona Kerr, Newton Mearns

Vocational training: its role in nursing

Malcolm Day

Helping adults cope with abuse as children

Janet Jones

Teaching and promoting testicular self-examination

Rosemary Cook

Reducing the risk of eye contamination

Karen Bern

Winning hearts and minds

Jane Cheetham

Evidence to 1996 Review Body stresses need for a national pay agreement

Compromise or cave-in?

Called to the bars

Juije McCaughan

‘Nurses must have right to speak out’

Bill Doult

Living in the village

JO Bark

Change needed in Mefloquine prophylaxis?

Osteoporosis gets engineering approach

Genetic component in both migraine types

Treating STDs reduces HIV incidence

Strikes nearer for Irish nurses

Anthony Garvey

News

Ultimatum in Soweto dispute

Romanian nursing forum launched

Commonwealth scheme offers RCN members awards

Nursing skills play key role in day surgery

Government to allow controlled use of cannabis-based drug

Edinburgh opens new high tech unit

Nurses to have input on hospital food

Graham Scott

Campaign to highlight heart risks

Trust’s grading shake-up plans anger staff

UCH nurses to strike over sacking of union activist

Graham Scott

Conference hears women’s pleas

Royal College of Midwives expresses concern over key changes at UKCC

JO Barr

UKCC sets up smoking room

Guidance for restoration to register

Council ethics committee to be disbanded

Trust approves ‘whistleblower’s charter’

Nurses urged to climb managerial ladder

Dina Leifer

News in brief

Nurses must carefully consider taking on extended roles

Staff side stresses need for national award in 1996

Unions split on government deal to resolve pay dispute

Dina Leifer

News

Editorial

Norah Casey