From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Connections with death
J R Soc Med 100(5): 205; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.205 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Charles D Shaw

Which way to organizational excellence? Not this way; ask a professional
J R Soc Med 100(5): 206-207; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.206 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Bill Tucker

DEMISE OF NURSING IN THE UK: The demise of nursing in the United Kingdom: a warning for medicine
J R Soc Med 100(5): 208; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.208 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

Nursing downgraded by surreptitious political change
J R Soc Med 100(5): 208; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.208-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

T M Evans

ODPs and the demise of nursing in the UK
J R Soc Med 100(5): 209; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.209 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mr Chris Clarke

Demise of nursing in the UK: ODPs are not the cause
J R Soc Med 100(5): 209; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.209-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linda Shields and Roger Watson

Authors' response
J R Soc Med 100(5): 209-210; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.209-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles Joyce

Of saving the elderly
J R Soc Med 100(5): 210; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.210 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Daniel Munday, Jeremy Dale, and Scott Murray

Choice and place of death: individual preferences, uncertainty, and the availability of care
J R Soc Med 100(5): 211-215; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.211 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rubin Minhas and James C Moon

The Office of Fair Trading report: a prescription for value-based drug pricing
J R Soc Med 100(5): 216-218; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.216 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Nick Black

From trades to professions
J R Soc Med 100(5): 219-224; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.219 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

David A Seamark, Clare J Seamark, and David M G Halpin

Palliative care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a review for clinicians
J R Soc Med 100(5): 225-233; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.225 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Tara Kielmann, Alison Tierney, Rosemary Porteous, Guro Huby, Aziz Sheikh, and Hilary Pinnock

The Department of Health's research governance framework remains an impediment to multi-centre studies: findings from a national descriptive study
J R Soc Med 100(5): 234-238; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.234 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

A Ardolino and S G Appleton

Aortogastric fistula secondary to pancreatitis
J R Soc Med 100(5): 239-240; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.239 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Michael Fitzpatrick

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
J R Soc Med 100(5): 241; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.241 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Harry M Marks

The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial
J R Soc Med 100(5): 242-247; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.242 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Imre Loefler

Of indigenous people and their health
J R Soc Med 100(5): 248-250; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.5.248 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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