15 April 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7241)

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Editor's Choice

Doctors and nurses: a new dance?

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Doctors and nurses: a new dance?

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

News

UK health secretary wants to liberate nurses' talents

BMJ 2000;320:1025.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

NHS workforce planning must be integrated

BMJ 2000;320:1025.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

South East Asia faces severe shortage of safe blood

BMJ 2000;320:1026.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Clinical Standards Advisory Group issues its final reports

BMJ 2000;320:1026.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1026.3 (Published 15 April 2000)

Government announces army of 133 to rescue England's NHS

BMJ 2000;320:1027.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Report lays out strategy to end “postcode prescribing”

BMJ 2000;320:1027.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

South Africa to tighten control on drug trials after five deaths

BMJ 2000;320:1028.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Patients' groups to sue tobacco industry in Spain

BMJ 2000;320:1028.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Number of UK diabetic patients set to double by 2010

BMJ 2000;320:1029.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Bypass grafts protect diabetic patients better than angioplasty

BMJ 2000;320:1029.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Canada faces nurse shortage

BMJ 2000;320:1030.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Germany expects more hospital privatisation

BMJ 2000;320:1030.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Editorials

Doctors and nurses: doing it differently

BMJ 2000;320:1019 (Published 15 April 2000)

Nursing and the future of primary care

BMJ 2000;320:1020 (Published 15 April 2000)

Getting health professionals to work together

BMJ 2000;320:1021 (Published 15 April 2000)

What's so great about collaboration?

BMJ 2000;320:1022 (Published 15 April 2000)

Reshaping the NHS workforce

BMJ 2000;320:1023 (Published 15 April 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Mandatory regular meetings of hospital staff would complement medical audit and revalidation

BMJ 2000;320:1072.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Caesarean section controversy

BMJ 2000;320:1072.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Serious hazards of transfusion (SHOT) initiative

BMJ 2000;320:1075.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Establishing probable cause in cerebral palsy

BMJ 2000;320:1075.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Letters - continued

The implications of outlawing age discrimination

BMJ 2000;320:1076 (Published 15 April 2000)

Ageism occurs in prevention of heart disease too

BMJ 2000;320:1077.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Evaluation of hospital at home scheme

BMJ 2000;320:1077.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Warming feeds is unnecessary and hazardous

BMJ 2000;320:1078.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Evidence based substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care?

BMJ 2000;320:1078.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1086 (Published 15 April 2000)

Fillers

Vaccination against smallpox—1806

BMJ 2000;320:1061 (Published 15 April 2000)

Monthly injections

BMJ 2000;320:1071 (Published 15 April 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Nurse practitioners effectively manage same day GP patients

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 15 April 2000)

Savings outweigh costs of nurse telephone consultation in out of hours primary care

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 15 April 2000)

Drug reactions cause about 3% of admissions to French hospitals

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 15 April 2000)

NHS Direct plays important part in providing reassurance

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 15 April 2000)

Prison mental health care doesn't match NHS

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 15 April 2000)

Practice nurses provide effective minor illness care

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 15 April 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

BMJ 2000;320:1058 (Published 15 April 2000)

Vascular complications of diabetes

BMJ 2000;320:1062 (Published 15 April 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

NHS in England ends financial year £200m in debt

BMJ 2000;320:1030.3 (Published 15 April 2000)

Drilling holes in the heart helps angina

BMJ 2000;320:1030.4 (Published 15 April 2000)

College inquiry finds evidence of “dysfunctional relationship”

BMJ 2000;320:1030.5 (Published 15 April 2000)

London's mayoral candidates agree over health

BMJ 2000;320:1030.6 (Published 15 April 2000)

India launches oral health strategy

BMJ 2000;320:1030.7 (Published 15 April 2000)

Modernise the NHS in small steps, say experts

BMJ 2000;320:1030.8 (Published 15 April 2000)

Papers

Inpatient care of mentally ill people in prison: results of a year's programme of semistructured inspections

BMJ 2000;320:1031 (Published 15 April 2000)

How helpful is NHS Direct? Postal survey of callers

BMJ 2000;320:1035 (Published 15 April 2000)

Admissions to hospital caused by adverse drug reactions: cross sectional incidence study

BMJ 2000;320:1036 (Published 15 April 2000)

Probable interaction between cyclosporin A and low dose ticlopidine

BMJ 2000;320:1037.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Lithium toxicity after urinary diversion with ileal conduit

BMJ 2000;320:1037.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

General practice

Nurse management of patients with minor illnesses in general practice: multicentre, randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;320:1038 (Published 15 April 2000)

Randomised controlled trial of nurse practitioner versus general practitioner care for patients requesting “same day” consultations in primary care

BMJ 2000;320:1043 (Published 15 April 2000)

Randomised controlled trial comparing cost effectiveness of general practitioners and nurse practitioners in primary care

BMJ 2000;320:1048 (Published 15 April 2000)

Cost analysis of nurse telephone consultation in out of hours primary care: evidence from a randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;320:1053 (Published 15 April 2000)

Education and debate

Nursing numbers in Britain: the argument for workforce planning

BMJ 2000;320:1067 (Published 15 April 2000)

Doctors and nurses should monitor each other's performanceFORAGAINST

BMJ 2000;320:1070 (Published 15 April 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPs respond to Blair's challengesDecision made on EU directive for junior doctorsJunior doctors call for action over “subconsultant grade”

BMJ 2000;320:1081 (Published 15 April 2000)

Books

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment

BMJ 2000;320:1082.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

The Benefits and Hazards of Exercise

BMJ 2000;320:1082.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Personal Views

Doctors have become more caring than nurses

BMJ 2000;320:1083.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Nurse practitioners and the future of general practice

BMJ 2000;320:1084.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

Doctors and nurses: new game, same result

BMJ 2000;320:1085.1 (Published 15 April 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Making websites

BMJ 2000;320:1083.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 2000;320:1084.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Soundings

Nursing matters

BMJ 2000;320:1085.2 (Published 15 April 2000)

Correction

Coronary and cardiovascular risk estimation for primary prevention: validation of a new Sheffield table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population

BMJ 2000;320:1034 (Published 15 April 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Roy AstleyAlexander Young AdamJohn French BurdonMax Berthold ClyneAndrew Fraser HigginsAbraham Harold IsaacsonJames Joseph (“Seamus”) KeenanMaurice LamellJan MiedemaPhilip Henry Almroth WillcoxGinette Lesley Harrison

BMJ 2000;320:1079 (Published 15 April 2000)