Reducing the risk of healthcare-acquired infection

Evonne Curran

Possible influences on clinical supervision

Alun Jones

Wound cleansing: ritualistic or research-based practice?

Jill Blunt

Where does the RCN stand on covert administration?

Adrian Reyes-Hughes

We should be protecting patients’ human rights

Leave concealed drugs in the dark ages

Joe Gallagher

Many readers will miss Fo’s witty articles

Rowena Giddens

You can’t improve waiting lists without nurses

Leslie Aldridge

New bodies will alienate those they should help

David Morris

There’s no denying the professional similarities

Allan McGregor

Reflective teaching and learning in the health professions

Mary Shaw

Assertiveness in the workplace

Gillian James

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

Margaret Paul

Outside in

David Newnham

Fluid movement

Penelope Tan

Who owns our future?

Howard Catton

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Natural laws

Jennifer Percival

An appetite for life

Lesley Chivers, Chris Bassett

Ask the experts

Statin safety

Julie Foxton

Key issues for nurses

Helen Caulfield

A lesson for us all

Tragedy leads to radical change

Mike Lehane, Rebecca O’Brien, Linda Drake, Frances Portman, Claire Pratt, Lan Hulatt

A turning point

Party lines

Bill Doult, Bill Doult

Better salaries pay dividends

Optimism over new pay and grading system

Stepping up to first base

Graham Scott

Trials still fail to reflect disease prevalence

Abuse in childhood predicts risk in adult women

Water as effective as oil for persistent earwax

A weekly round-up of the latest research and scientific reports from the nursing and medical journals

News in brief

Restricted fetal growth is often undetected

Homes miss out on latest continence products ruling

Rael Martell

Word perfect

Expert patients to manage disease

Rise in asthma figures

Writers urged to drop the jargon

Christian Duffin

Support for ‘value nurses’

Practice nurse pay debate

Trusts pay price for poor relations

We need 10%

Review body urged to build on rising morale

Christian Duffin

NHS Confederation calls for long-term pay awards

Christian Duffin

Pension changes will help returners

Boost for ethical recruitment

Study aims to encourage Asian nurses

Global healing

Bush praises spirit of hospital staff

Messages of support from UK colleagues

US nurses prepare to deal with psychological impact

Nick Lipley

Surge in blood donations

Health service on the alert

...and valuing nurses’ contribution

Pay is about equity...

Jean Gray

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