Network of expertise

Clare Lomas

Myelodysplastic syndromes: update and nursing considerations

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Role of lung cancer nurse specialists in recruiting patients to clinical trials

John McPhelim

The value of stress relieving techniques

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Patients prefer doctors who speak to them optimistically

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Early onset of hair loss correlates to longer survival

Dion Smyth

End of life care education needed by all nurses

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Conference report

Sue Brand

Noticeboard

Diary

Palliative and End of Life Care in Nursing

Clare McVeigh

Clinical Governance

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B is for Balance

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Identifying the last year of life

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Point of view - Celebrity stories help us to talk about cancer

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Innovative ways to improve take up of cervical smear tests prove successful

Survey reveals sharp contrasts in quality of palliative care

Nick Triggle

Web support launched

Scholarships for postgraduate course in young adult care

Nursing research needs to ‘raise game’ or lose funding

Katie Osborne

Bowel Cancer UK makes a five year pledge on survival rates by 2025

Acute hospitals earn accolade for standard of end of life care

Seeing a different doctor linked to an earlier diagnosis

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Research is not difficult to do

Carole Farrell