Leadership theories and the development of nurses in primary health care

Ruth Taylor

The relevance of self-directed care

Simon Knighton

Diagnostic dilemmas associated with urinary tract infections

B Nancy Loveridge

Promoting a human rights approach for people with learning disabilities in community practice

Martin Bollard

Managing end of life care using the Gold Standards Framework

Sue Griffin, Nikki Sawkins

Pandemic influenza: the primary care challenge

Robert Pratt

Young people supporting parents with mental health problems: experiences of assessment and support

Sheila Donovan

Hidden children: perspectives of professionals on young carers of people with mental health problems

Research focus

Use of waist circumference measurement in minority ethnic patient groups

Vari Drennan

Nurse-led service effective in modifying asthma triggers in children

True costs of self-management programmes for osteoarthritis assessed and found wanting

Research news

Notice board

Cut the waist

Tina Bishop

Osteoporosis

Diary

Fundamentals of nursing

Jess Dorrett

The nurse in the mirror

Bethann Siviter

Trouble ahead

Roy Lilley

Fall in cervical screening numbers triggers improvement programme

Ruth Kennedy

Family nurses offer lifeline to parents who need extra support

Christian Duffin

Palliative care for care homes

Sheila Rengert

Nursing pharmacology made incredibly easy

Jennie Bradford

QNI awards highest honour to nurse prescribing champion

Government acknowledges need to train and recruit more school nurses

Small changes result in more time spent with patients

Too few primary care nurses to achieve government goals

Scrutiny of children’s services will seek views of senior staff

Community health professionals are undervalued and overworked

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Time to invest in the community

Lynn Young