Board’s eye view

Barry McBrien

A guide to travel health

Adrienne Willcox, Mike Hayward

Tension pneumothorax

Jim Bethel

Emergency contraception

Joy Godding

Reporting violence

Simon Pawlin

Inappropriate requests

Anthony Summers

Sickle cell disease

Christian Duffin

Training

Diary

Noticeboard

Keeping up standards

Jim Bethel

Emergencies in clinical medicine

Charles Sloan

Emergency care attendance

Rabina Tindale

Deep vein thrombosis

Rabina Tindale

News

Public shows confidence in emergency care staff

RCN campaign urges emergency nurses to put principles of dignity ‘back at the heart of nursing’

Nick Lipley

NHS Direct cuts emergency department and GP workload, researchers discover

Ambulance crew target performance best ever

Report urges use of needle-free devices

Emergency diabetes care on the increase

Holiday hazards

Claire Picton