Spasticity: a common symptom of multiple sclerosis

Rhona Currie

The influence of professional roles on clinical supervision

Alun Jones

Cultural sensitivity: a practical approach to improving services

Jane Daddy, Angie Clegg

Telemedicine in rural care. Part 2: assessing the wider issues

Colin Macduff, Bernice West, Sylvia Harvey

Proposals for nhs pensions scheme are just that

Colin Pitcher

Improved hand hygiene involves many factors

Fenella Connell

Being a patient restored my faith in the system

Cathy Carr

Moving articles reveal a courageous role model

Jane Bovey

We can't go on blaming others for our problems

Andrew Bagnall

Student placements should put the basics first

Pete Hinman

The prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers

Catherine Malone

The facts of lice

Developing practical Nursing Skills

Sue Cross

What's on: The best of the week’s health-related TV and Radio

Margaret Paul

Ask the experts

Fighting fraud

Colin Beacock

Outside in

David Newnham

Be prepared

Lyn Harbird

Clear the decks

Jennifer Percival

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Signing on

Diane Hall, Julie Farrell, Duncan Clarkson

In a strange land

Lucy Botting

Prison terms

Jim Elder-Ennis

Teen spirit

Ruth Lesirge

Play your hand

Anne Roberts

Made to order

Sadler Catharine

Setting the pace

Duffin Christian

Poor performance

Healy Pat

Restenosis prevented with new aspirin formulation

High salt intake predicts mortality and heart disease

Deprivation a risk factor for visual loss from glaucoma

Combination therapy best for preventing ECT relapse

Farmers’ health service saved

Rural areas need £100m

Election may be lifeline for CHCs

Parties compete for nurses’ votes with NHS manifestos

Graham Scott, Nick Lipley

Professional perceptions of risk vary

Nurses face a ‘juggling act’ over safety of older patients

Christian Duffin

Mobile clinics for areas without a GP

On the move

Bursary for returners

Village remembers waterloo heroine

New recruitment drive to fill consultant nurse posts

Nick Lipley

Higher level practice appraisal is effective

Nurses best at detecting mistakes

Foster calls for alliance to ‘talk up’ the health service

Colin Parish

Dressings must have patient approval

Newborns to be screened

Support for A&E staff under pressure

Ministers under fire over ‘modem matron’ plans

Unions consider RCN pay offer

College sets rules for HCAs

Members of the shadow NMC

Nurse takes the chair of shadow nursing council

Nick Lipley

Information overload

Two thirds can’t cope with stress

Rule change on overseas staff

Lending support to UK’s rural areas

Nurses, take a bow

Jean Gray