Understanding care closer to home for ill children and young people

Gemma Spiers, Kate Gridley, Linda Cusworth, Suzanne Mukherjee, Gillian Parker, Janet Heaton, Karl Atkin, Yvonne Birks, Karin Lowson, Dianne Wright

Providing information to children before and during venepuncture

Teresa Hughes

An account of nursing a child with complex needs in the home

Carmel Doyle, Sinead Buckley

Emotional labour: the challenges of working with children and cancer

Alice Howard, Stephen Timmons

Code of practice for community equipment

Linda Perry

Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People

Duncan Randall

The neonatal behavioral assessment scale

Sue Turrill

Not easy

Rebecca Harmer

Student voice Not easy

Rebecca Harmer

Links between obesity and a lack of vitamin D in Spanish children

Identifying factors that increase the risk of vitamin D deficiency

On the web

Elizabeth Charnock

Journal scan

Diary

True family-centred care should reflect patients’ and professionals’ views

Joanna Smith

Research and commentary

Evaluation of high doses of vitamin D in Iranian school girls

Jackie Bentley

Notice board

From iron lungs to family-centred care

Doreen Crawford

‘The sooner the better’ for feeding milk to preterms

Jackie Cosh

Rise in number of looked after children leads to guidance

Unease grows about effect of NHS reforms on continuity of care

Award winning pillow invention helps to keep babies’ airways open

News in brief

Play project aims to reduce tooth decay

Online resource made available for qualitative research

Pass on the message about internet and mobile safety

Nurses urged to help inform parents on console misuse

Hope for the future

Doreen Crawford