Vaginal health

Felicity Young

Assertive outreach: development of a working model

Keith Ford, Norman McClelland

Reproductive health service integration in South Africa

Sphindile Magwaza, Diane Cooper

Mary Hawkins

Laurence Dopson

Train drivers deserve their pay

Ingrid Murphy

Modern matron is mainly interested in budgets

Marce Jackson

There is an easy way to stop smoking

Rhys Maybrey

No one has the right to take someone’s life

Shirley Soper

Traditional dress style is a power trip for some

D Roberts

National uniform would solve any confusion

Liz Ettrldge

Good Practice with Vulnerable Adults

Cris Allen

Burn Trauma – Management and Nursing Care

Ivy Andrews

Changing times

Janet Smith

Assume nothing

Carol Menashy

Management with compassion

Cupid’s arrow

Outside in

David Newnham

Put your back into it

Jane Bates

Family planning

Gilly Andrews

Research notes

Senga Steel

Jewel in the health crown

Brian Dolan

Standard life - Like builders’ estimates, the latest twist in the property market does not make sense

Daniel Allen

Ask the experts

Readers panel - A question of privacy

Karla Buswell, Brid Hehir, Brendan McMahon

Dry spells

Mary Hampshire

Damage limitation

Nursing by numbers

James Buchan

Always there for you

Paul Dinsdale

Reasons to stay

Karen Murray

Brain’s response to stress could explain PTSD

Interaction between garlic and protease inhibitors

Gender and age differences in nurses’ stress levels

Quick referral and survival in ovarian cancer

Nurse trains MPs to deal with attacks

Research plan for rural health

Children’s stories of pain make shocking’ reading

Christian Duffin

HIV toll is putting strain on South African nurses

Ian McMillan

Restraint policies must be clear

Put the passion back in

Students placed with families

‘Buddies’ may ease attrition

Call for standardised cadet schemes

Multi professional training wins backing of nurses

Cost of childcare pushing students into hardship

Karen Murray

Row over key post at WHO

Regular tests on use of equipment needed

Antibiotics added to nurse formulary

Fresh plan to boost MMR uptake rates

New pay system will cost £3bn

Karen Murray

Winning ways

News in brief

NHS Professionals may put up cost of temporary staff

Adele Waters

‘Cowboy’ agencies not named

…so where will all the mentors come from?

Staff crisis won’t go away

Jean Gray