Assessment and management of the trauma patient

Elaine Cole

Postural hypotension

Brian Houltram, Mike Scanlan

Supplementary nurse prescribing

Alison Hay, Eleanor Bradley, Peter Nolan

Tony Smith CBE

Laurence Dopson

Outside ln

Data has been misrepresented

Stephen Gough

Help for young who self-harm

Carol Dimon

Hospital-based skills labs

Terry Adams

Apology

Diabetes in people with schizophrenia

Richard Holt

Essence of individualised nursing

Val Sharkey

Innovative practices should march on

Mary Clay

The rise of the player manager

Mary Shaw

A comprehensive look at public health

David Benton

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

In the name of independence

Mike Walsh

Now is the time

Walk-in centres could help ease pressure on over-stretched A&E departments

Simon Hughes

Research notes

Paula Roberts

Haunted by the PREP panic

Jane Bates

Say it out loud

Deborah Birtchnell

Starting Out - Student Laura Lennard helped a family in distress

Laura Lennard

Readers panel

Kate Chapman, Ian Hulatt, Linda Drake, Mat O’Connor

Standard life

Daniel Allen

The fat of the land

Catharine Sadler

For good measure

Mary Hampshire

Is there no alternative?

Stephen Wright

Community shake up

Sue Learner

Babies with jaundice can be treated at home safely

Theatre staff failing to apply universal precautions

Social inequalities in health show regional variation

Exercise is better than a collar for whiplash injury

MPs to hear from disability lobby

Death of eminent nurse researcher

Audit shows progress on blood clot drugs target

christian Duffin

Family thanks whistleblowers

Poor maternity unit criticised by watchdog

Nurse’s joy at landmark award over latex allergy

Christian Duffin

New Tory is no stranger to health

Keeping the waste lines under control

Expansion promised for school nursing

News in brief

Patients feel benefit as nurses replace doctors

Christian Duffin

Customer care crucial to success of walk-in centres

Lucy Gooding

Cold shoulder for MR

More choice on the menu means less wasted food

Disgust at anti-euthanasia campaign

Revamped register gets August 1 start

Incapacitated patients to be protected by new law

Paul Dinsdale

£500,000 gender gap in occupational health

Sarah Harrison

Agenda for Change will hit NHS finances

On the Welsh and Scottish campaign trail

New ways that work well

Jean Gray