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Nice and easy does it

26 November 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

EVERY YEAR in England and Wales, around 1,300 women’s lives are saved as a result of cervical screening. Now, the traditional cervical smear is set to be replaced by...

Is that the way to do it?

12 August 2003

Nursing Standard

Analysis

ENGLAND’S HEALTH minister John Hutton has the unpleasant job of persuading us that foundation hospitals are the way forward for a modernised NHS. Yet opposition over...

HRT: the risks

27 August 2003

Nursing Standard

Analysis

THE BENEFITS of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have tended to obscure the potential dangers that come with this treatment. This may well change as a result of the...

Let us get on with it

10 September 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

UMA FERNANDES has worked as a community nurse in the London borough of Brent for 23 years and has been a local councillor for the past nine. ‘Initially I found...

But baby look at you now

17 December 2003

Nursing Standard

Analysis

IT IS ten years since the publication of Changing Childbirth. The report, produced by an allparty parliamentary committee, echoed what many women had been thinking -...

Primary concern

16 July 2003

Nursing Standard

Feature

THE NHS is never far off the political agenda. Previous health minister Alan Milburn’s plan was to make health services more efficient, dynamic and responsive to...

A bed of their own

17 August 2004

Nursing Standard

Features

THE SAFEST place for babies to sleep in the first six months of life is in a cot in the same room as their parents.

Bone of contention

17 March 2004

Nursing Standard

Analysis

HORMONE REPLACEMENT therapy (hrt) is no longer the first choice of therapy for prevention of osteoporosis in women over 50, according to new advice from the...

In safe hands

14 April 2004

Nursing Standard

Infection control

WHEN PEOPLE go into a hospital for treatment they expect the standard of hygiene will be better than in their own homes. Sadly, this is not always the case.

Let’s talk about sex

07 July 2004

Nursing Standard

Analysis

WHEN 14-year-old Melissa Smith decided to have a termination without her mother’s knowledge, the issues of confidentiality and consent to treatment came under the...