Out in front

Louise May

The overactive bladder

Deborah Rigby

Urinary continence after a cerebrovascular accident

Pamela Olsen-Vetland

Sexuality and learning disabilities

Darren Savarimuthu, Toni Bunnell

Outside in

David Newnham

Midwives deserve greater recognition for their work

Sadie Wilson

Agency nurses should take more responsibility

Fiona Jones

Standards in appearance are slipping away

Sue Allen

Nurses’ addresses will not enter public domain

Stuart Skyte

More debate needed on catheterisation

John Robinson

Diploma course was better option for me

Pamela Storey

Nurses don’t need degrees to do their jobs well

Helen Ludlow

Book review

Tim Collins

Charting new routes for learning

Graham Sloan

What’s on: the best of the week’s health-related TV and radio compiled by nurse and lecturer Margaret Paul

Margaret Paul

Too much information

Brid Hehir, Chris Barber, paul jebb, Julie Farrell

Handling the hazards

Mike Betts

Through the pain

Derrick Tait

Starting out

Sue Marriott

Research notes

Alison Jeffery, Jenny Perkins, Brad Metcalf

In their footsteps

Chrissy Dunn

Some space

Andrew McCulloch

Following

We all need

Let’s be frank: there’s more to obsessive behaviour than ‘caning it’

Daniel Allen

The engine room

Neil Hamilton

Looking good

Caroline Swinburne

Safety first

Fair game?

Christian Duffin

Atypical symptoms of stroke are poorly recognised

Predictive factors for low back pain in children

Eplerenone reduces heart failure mortality

High fish intake benefits women with diabetes

Buzzers ‘should never be moved’

Specialist nurse posts must be justified, say managers

Sarah Harrison

Ethics expert backs assisted dying bill

Single goal for HCA regulation

Tories pledge to cut red tape with health passport

Sarah Harrison

News in brief

Non-compliance is no accident

Unions fear trusts won’t have to stick to pay deal

Colin Parish

Backdating could take months

Anger over cost of police checks

Maternity benefit under discussion

Matching people to pay bands a ‘massive task’

Bullying can have negative effect on clinical outcomes

Tough year for NHS agency

At the sharp end

Bullying affects patient care and outcomes too

Where next for the NHS?

Tim Madge