After words

Mat O'Connor

Sell yourself

Jeremy Benton

Notice board

Ready for a challenge

Master plan

Alison Jenkins

Master plan

Alison Jenkins

Write a practice profile

Mental health

Jayne Kelly

Promoting skin health

Sara Burr

Promoting skin health

Sara Burr, Rebecca Penzer

Impetigo: aetiology, complications and treatment options

Philip Watkins

Supporting vulnerable groups during behaviour change

Emma Croghan

Caring for a patient with COPD: a reflective account

Margaret Barnett

Will hewitt herald a more inclusive leadership style?

Stephen Weeks

A Way of complementing your nursing practice

Leigh Smyth

A way of complementing your nursing practice

Leigh Smyth

Dyslexics should not be discriminated against

David Dalton

Put your own house in order before blaming students

Jason Lightoller

Trained staff should give students a break

Karen Myatt

Satisfaction from making patients feel special

Les Walker

Satisfaction from making patients feel special

Les Walker

A uniform threat from other professions

Kathryn Hetherington

Give nurses protective suit carriers to help stop the spread of HAIs

Nicki Redgrift

Quiet power is just what the future of nursing needs

Malcolm Smith

The newly qualified nurse’s survival guide

Kim Redfern

The Newly Qualified Nurse’s Survival Guide

Kim Redfern

Palliative Care for the Child with Malignant Disease

Heather Dale

Diverticular Disease

Pat Bottrill

Diverticular Disease

Pat Bottrill

Palliative Care for the Child with Malignant Disease

Heather Dale

The name for a gene that throws molecular traffic into chaos? Sunday Driver, says David Newnham

David Newnham

A welcome script for staff and patients

Lydia Burke

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bernard Gibbon

Lost for words

Jane Bates

Readers panel - Future perfect

Scott Justice, Carol Singleton, Jane Brown, Mike Lehane

Better all round

Sandra Henney

Agenda for change

Gerry O’Dwyer

Starting out-An anxious child showed why emotional care is so important

Marion Ong

Mind reading

Joanne Schofield

The power of the acronym

Leslie Gelling

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Voices

Linda Thomas

Books on the move

Dina Leifer

Dynamic duo

Lynne Pearce

Silica exposure associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Being under strain increases risk of carotid plaques

Heavy drinking can be reduced by injection with naltrexone

Breast self-examination and breast awareness

Should i stay or should i go?

James Buchan, Renu Jobanputra, Pippa Gough, James Buchan

Should i stay or should i go?

James Buchan, Renu Jobanputra, Pippa Gough

Midwives and nurses 'unfairly targeted' after Shipman inquiry

Christian Duffin

Many nurses will not know new salaries by target date

Opportunity knocks for new faces at the department of health

Bill Doult

Conservative nurse will 'lobby for pay'

News in brief

New ideas cut caesarean rates

Retirement age changes will be hard fought

Obstetrics under fire

Maternity units turn to massage

Sir Trevor hails Mary Seacole

Health professionals unite to fight unethical recruitment from overseas

Pharmacists refuse nurse prescriptions

Tourists need life advice

Nurses in lead role as companies crack down on sickness absence

Christian Duffin

Food industry held up as model

Workforce director forecasts decline in NHS staff numbers

‘There is a real danger that professional staff will leave and sell their services back to the NHS’

Pension reformers to enter detailed debate

Seamus Ward

Chief executives accountable for poor race relations

Call for fast track care to cut sick leave

Celebrating our day

Chief nurse calls on trust managers to support those in specialist roles

Sue Learner

More than just money

Tim Madge