Clean surgical wounds: prevention of infection

Dinah Gould

Role of the nurse consultant in tissue viability

Judy Harker

Launching the Tidal Model in an adult mental health programme

Elaine Fletcher, Chris Stevenson

GUM placement offered lessons on life

Karen Wyper Portsmouth

Academia is essential to the nursing profession

Barry Aveyard Sheffield

Overlapping skills and treatment can only be positive

Sarah Giles

The class of '88 remembers the last pay changes well

Theresa Duncan Glasgow

Review punitive student bursary plans

Victor Abu

Keep trying and keep positive if you fail

Clare Hatter

It is healthcare assistants who deliver ‘pure’ nursing

Margaret Harrison

Pension rights for same sex and unmarried couples

Roger Fisher, Ronald Strank

What’s on: the best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Piloting Choice and Control for Older People

Pam Milward

A call to arms for practice nurses

Stuart Cable

Demystifying HIV

Deborah Ralph

Outside in

David Newnham

Forgive and forget

Jennifer Percival

Student life - How to win friends and alienate people

Linda Drake

Comfort zone

Liesha Tyndale Hines, Tracey Swallow, David Mellors

For better or worse?

Today's babysitters, tomorrow's parents

Let's get physical

Matthew Baker

Flying by the seat of our Pants

Norman MacLeod

Fostering change

Colin Parish

Round the clock

Paul Dinsdale

Epidural alternatives could reduce operative deliveries

Exercise may improve irritable bowel symptoms

Vaccine could form part of drug treatment programmes

Dummy use as an indicator of breastfeeding problems

Hospice to get million dollars

MH clients lead research

Worries over alcohol abuse service

Scotland's helpline learns from NHS Direct example

Christian Duffin

Flu target up by 5 per cent

On the move

Practice nurses reject fines for missed appointments

Paul Dinsdale

More counselling links needed

NHS may recruit from Georgia

United front on overseas nurses

Transplant unit hits the road running

Managers get nurse ratios wrong

Sale of cottage hospital sparks staff pension fears

Christian Duffin

News in brief

Better patient flow cuts trolley waits in A&E units

Colin Parish

Care plan reduces violence on wards

CPHVA considers call for meeting

End is in sight for 230 mixed sex wards

Health departments argue against a major pay rise

Colin Parish

Landfill risk to babies

Student bursary change will be monitored

Heather goes back to her roots

Single assessment to have local criteria

‘Free’ nursing care may lead to massive shortfall

Paul Dinsdale

Long-term care bands

Person-centred care has optimistic results

Pay rise must come first