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Out of the public glare

Ian McMillan

Travellers’ checks

Joan Booth

Careers: network

The principles and practice of child protection

Sharon Stower

Improving communication when giving bad news

Establishing a mental health liaison nurse service: lessons for the future

Suzi Brendon, Michelle Reet

Are nursing theories holistic?

Barbara Hancock

Spiritual care in nursing: a systematic approach

Ian Govier

1999 report into perioperative deaths: extremes of age

Leading nursing figure ill informed on education

Les Storey

A grandmother on the rates

Brendan McMahon

Don’t make us choose between family and work

Rebecca Gray, Sean Kelly, Donna Carr

Pressure of work is to blame for poor feeding

Robert Murgatroyd

Nuclear testing may have increased risk of myeloma

Jean Powick

Nursing documentation - legal focus across pratice settings

Linda Crofts

Clinical Evidence

Kate Seers

No-nonsense support for patients and relatives

Ruth Sander

Footnote

Ask the experts

A private view

Deborah Rigby

Standard life - Changing one's personality for the new millennium is proving harder than expected

Daniel Allen

No prime minister!

Karla Buswell, Christopher Humm, Linda Payne

Diagnosing bond, James Bond

Brendan McMahon

Run away success

Sebastian Coe

Men at, work

Jenny MacKenzie

Making things happen

Daniel Allen

Back to basics

Lynne Wallis

Bristol: the courage to question

Dina Leifer

Vitamin C doses can prevent complication of wrist fracture

Sweetening the pill: sugar helps people quit smoking

Blood pressure medication can sometimes be stopped

Latex alternative to go into manufacture in the US

Encouraging patient compliance in psoriasis therapy

Helpline for worried parents

Concern over massive variations in NHS costs

Lipley Nick

Army and navy nurses honoured

On the move

News in brief

Non-compliance is normal for users of steroid inhalers

Burke Katherine

News

Counselling could harm

Support workers’ role reviewed

News

Nurses go into the red after Christmas spending

Waters Adele

Row over value of screening

Extra staff take the strain in Scotland

Welsh patients get inappropriate beds Worst winter ever for province

NHS creaking as winter crisis takes hold

Nick Lipley, Graham Scott

Let nurses lead primary care trusts

Funeral ‘backhanders' exposed

News

Nurses will think again as the bills mount up

Suddenly it’s winter: again

Gray Jean