Volume 4 Number 1 contents

Editorial

A time for excellence in the NHS?
A Hutchinson

Original articles

The effect of audit on the quality of diabetes care in primary care
K Khunti and R Baker

Evidence, policy making and the art of the possible: a methodology applied to screening
H Thornton-Jones, S Hampshaw and H Soltani

Audit of FSH requesting can alter long-term practice
R Lapworth, T Anslow and T Clawson

A cross-sectional postal survey of the diagnosis of childhood urinary tract infections in general practice - a baseline for clinical governance
G Robinson

Leicestershire surgical readmissions survey
C Sutton, L Marshall, T Lloyd, G Garcea, D Berry and M Kelly

For debate

Clinical governance, the emperor's new clothes and the meaning of clinical audit
R Bullock

Coaching consultants: appraisal as preventive medicine
J Sanger

Evidence-based practice digests
Book Reviews