Footnotes

Newnham David

A test of your skills

Mike Bennett

Take nothing for granted

Gil Hek

Develop your career in just one visit

Linda Thomas

Wound management and pain control

Dinah Gould

Care of the patient with a fractured neck of femur

Pressure sore care

Christopher Shiels, Brenda Roe

Improving schools’ asthma policies and procedures

Jan Anderton, Jane Broady

ICN on health and human rights

Giving nursing homes a fair crack of the whip

Derek Jones

Big Train's blooper on Florence Nightingale

Paula Geschwind

Sue Thomas, RCN adviser in chronic disease and disability, wrote to the BBC to express concerns she had received from nurses about this programme. The BBC responded as follows:

Fears that Harry will raise false hopes on stroke care

Mary White Matlock

Old is more than useful if not necessarily beautiful

Peter Wilkinson

Government is ignoring the value of experience

Lesley Twigger

Working solution

Paul Finn

Flexible return

Sue Brown, Wei Lam

Daytime families

Lynch Mason

Ask the experts

Brave multidisciplinary attempt to define the concept of care

Roger Watson

Disability and the Law

Ruth Norway

Rehabilitation Nursing: Process and Application (2nd Edition)

Stella Backhouse

Resources

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Have you seen a ghost?

Frances Wheatley

Home alone

Viv Semmens

Whisper Who dares

Barry Hill

Making waves

Jenni Murray

A private life

Alison Moore

Health insurance in the United States

Poor and homeless people have been receiving free primary health care on New York's Hudson river since 1866. Mary Hampshire reports

Mary Hampshire

From RADA to rampton

Weight watching

Helen Gilbert

Corticosteroids hold key to memory loss in older people

Reducing asthma through exclusive breastfeeding

New treatment successful for diabetic foot ulcers

Alcohol risk factor for death and stroke in young men

News in brief

Group protocol go-ahead for meningitis vaccination

Nick Lipley

Nurse prescribing reforms to be unveiled

Skill mix blamed for homes crash

Student nurses suffer in silence from racist abuse

Helen Gilbert

On the move

Nurses in fresh bid to help smokers quit

Workloads weighing tutors down

Government urged to act quickly over winter crisis

Adele Waters

Three RCN fellowships awarded

Value of nurses must be recognised in new NHS

RCN subs to increase by £5

Unfair attacks on education

UKCC figures reveal down turn in registered nurses

Adele Waters

Claims ICU staff affect mortality

Second week of strike begins in Ireland

Survey praises courtesy shown to patients

Bristol staff crisis sets up bumper pay day

Audit Commission report levels and skill mix do not

Nick Lipley

Cancer expert for standards

UKCC rejects automatic report of sackings

Time we taught the racist bullies a lesson

Flexibility now critical

Linda Thomas