Focus on alcohol

Jennifer Sprinks

Treating abdominal pain in young people

Grace McVeigh, Pauline Cardwell

Effects of snake envenomation: a guide for emergency nurses

Stephen McGhee, Alan Finnegan, John M Clochesy, Constance Visovsky

Diagnosis and treatment of jogger’s heel

Laura Horobin

Heart attack in women

Jennifer Sprinks

Burnout among nurses

Jennifer Sprinks

Patient deterioration

Jennifer Sprinks

Noticeboard

Diary

Risks of voluntourism

Jean Proehl

New start for older people’s care

Deborah Thompson, Simon Conroy

Board’s eye view - Time for a rethink

Mike Parker

Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care

Colin Parish

The Doctor’s Communication Handbook

Valerie McGurk

Crisis management

Mary Spinks

Hospital staff are struggling to deal with winter pressures

Nick Triggle

Dragon breathes life into organ campaign

Minimum numbers of staff set for urgent care services

Erin Dean, Nick Lipley

Government introduces action plan to reduce deaths from sepsis

New practice standards spell out requirements for ‘good Samaritan’ acts

Call handlers get more time to help cut wasted ambulance journeys

News in brief

How do we fix emergency care?

Nick Lipley