Volume 1 Number 3 contents

Editorial

Making professional development continuous
G Batstone and M Edwards

Original articles

Are primary health care staff interested in research and what prevents them from becoming involved?
A J Hamsphire, R Murphy, E Murphy, B Hancock, K Levine and V James

The clinical implementation of clinical governance: acute stroke management as an example
G Houghton, D O'Mahony, S G Sturman and J Unsworth

Feedback of X-ray frequency: a controlled trial between primary care groups
J Stead and A Round

An audit of health monitoring in an adult population with profound learning disability
A Rudkin, C Heason and D Rowe

Distal radius fracture and risks of further osteoporotic fracture: an audit
A Miller, A Beegan and J David

How effective was your audit? A new method of reporting audit results of improvements in standards of care
K Khunti, R Baker and S Adams

The systematic review: an objective measure of the evidence?
R Cook and A Lipp

An assessment of clinical competency on an undergraduate midwifery programme: midwives' and students' experiences 
C Hindley

Clinical governance in practice: a view from the shop floor
J Edwards

A nursing perspective on clinical governance: policy, principles and priorities for action
G Harvey

Potentiating evidence-based practice through collaborative utility of clinical effectiveness and clinical supervision
P Osbourne and A Lipp

Conference report

Enthusiasm for clinical effectiveness
D Goddard

Practice digests

Press releases

Announcements