At the heart of care

Barbara Flowers

Menopause

Kathy Abernethy

Setting up a nurse-run young person’s drop-in clinic

Barbara Richardson-Todd

Nurses’ maths: researching a practical approach

Ann Wilson

Outside in

David Newnham

Hand hygiene: getting to grips with all the issues

David Casey

Correction

Surely I should be able to retire earlier not later

Beverley Cann

How can nurses help the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa?

Roger Nuttall

Equal opportunities for all – unless you have a mental illness

From HCA to staff nurse – what a great initiative

Penny Accleton

Understand what life coaching is really about

Mandy Gutsell

Beware of making theory too obscure

Liz Gibson

Information for managing health care resources

Peter Martin

Holistic approach to cancer care

Paula Gawthorpe

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

Margaret Paul

Now it is for real

Ted Bailey

Taking care of dying

Professor Stephen Wright

Voicing concern

Beverly Malone

Help is just a modem away

Sharon Palfrey

Starting out

Romuladus Azuine

Big mouths

Jennifer Percival

A loss of perfection

Florence Westfold

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Special treatment

Dean-David Holyoake, Jane Brown, Duncan Clarkson, Frances Wheatley

To tellor not to tell

Tim Turner

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Diagnosing prostate cancer

Man’s best friend

John Naish

‘I want to be the patients’ Rasputin, working behind the scenes and watching out for the poisoned chalice’

Harry Cayton

Genetic screening

Independence day

Kay Smith

Is that the way to do it?

Elizabeth Lynch

New era for pay

Colin Parish

A nation divided

James Buchan

Protective effect of Caribbean origin in suicide is age related

Predictors of functional outcome after CABG

Low birth weight babies have problems at school

Alcohol protects younger women from type 2 diabetes

News in brief

Frontline nurses urged to identify ‘health tourists’

Sarah Harrison

Practical approach to Maths tests is the answer

NHS to clampdown on agency timesheet scams

Christian Duffin

British hospital dramas: realistic but dull

Trusts must make whistleblowing easier for staff

Care homes go under

CHI survey critical of pain control in A&E

Colin Parish

King on course for honours

Magistrates issue antisocial order on A&E offender

DoH and police unite to improve safety

New role helps trust to cut junior doctors’ hours

Colin Parish

Blair attacked over foundation expansion plan

Call for sexual health training

‘Jury still out’ on call-degree nursing

Nursing deans warn of staffing crisis in education

Colin Parish

Taking a leap of faith

‘Inspirational’ midwife wins hospital award

More staff in Northern Ireland

Recruitment success misleading

UK attracts the best Filipino nurses

Sarah Harrison

Taking the mystery out of mathematics

A clampdown too far

Jean Gray