Community forensic nursing demands many skills and offers a chance to work with a wide range of professionals. Colin Vose explains the attractions of this expanding field

Colin Vose

Quality and the new NHS

Neil Brocklehurst, Kieran Walshe

Diary

‘Inside Story’ – Looks that kill

Paul Rogers

Disordered mother or disordered diagnosis? Munchhausen by Proxy Syndrome

Catherine Gaskell

Understanding Suicidal Behaviour

David Duffy

Girl, interrupted (15)

Louise Pembroke

Integrated care pathways in acute psychiatry at the Gatehouse Assessment Centre

Carol Smith, Sandra Embling, Patricia Price

Nurses must put a more positive spin on their roles to make the profession more appealing to others, says Catherine Gaskell

Catherine Gaskell

In a final opinion column as head of policy with RCN Scotland, Alex McMahon assesses the state of mental health nursing north of the border

Generic nurses: the nemesis of psychiatric/mental health nursing?

John R Cutcliffe, Hugh McKenna

A tsar in their eyes

Dial ‘M’ for… mental health

Heads in the sand on human rights

Rick Tucker

People

Letters

Peace Ajiboye

Saint and sinner?

David Harding-Price

One child in ten ‘ill’

Concerns raised over depot practice

MPs told of danger CTOs pose to nurses

Christian Duffin

Editoral

Ian McMillan