After words

Jeremy Benton

A mature approach

Les Walker

Thirty dimensional

Sonia Harding

Transatlantic lessons

Angela Davis

Transatlantic lessons

Angela Davis

Reader’s practice profile easing the pain

Rhoda Lillystone

The ward nurse’s role in infection control

Julie Storr, Kathryn Topley

The ward nurse’s role in infection control

Julie Storr, Kathryn Topley, Sue Privett

Development of core competencies for infection prevention and control

Debbie King

Promoting physical exercise in breast cancer care

Marilyn Kirshbaum

Checklists can be a big help in playing our cards right

Debbie King

NHS superannuation figures just don’t seem to add up

Diane Tookey

Failure is not part of my maths calculations

Colette Hale

Uniforms in the grocery store – you’ve been shopped

Rohini Somerset-Butler

Touch therapy – less hands off and more hands on

Lucy Fyfe

‘Reliable and conscientious’ work in nursing homes too

David Price

Space-age technology, but no washing machines?

Paul Mauer

Can we set up a fund to prevent house sale?

Liz Chukwu

Training time spent on wards should count in length-of-service calculations

Pam Thompson

Best medicine – asthma

Adrienne Brewin

Nursing the dying patient – caring in different contexts

Marion Goodchild

Body shame – conceptualisation, research and treatment

Mike Lehane

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Elizabeth Anionwu

Agenda for change

Scott Justice

Deathly definitions

Marc Cornock

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Voices - Not every patient comes in a pretty package with a single issue to resolve, says Sharon Dennis

Sharon Dennis

In at the deep end

Jane Bates

Starting out - student experiences

Joanne Hardy

Meeting is believing

Jane Bovey

Readers panel - Academic scale

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

The science bit

David Newnham

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Do doctors really know best?

Steven Pack

Notice board

At grandma’s home

Flying colours

Jane Salvage

Dizzy spells in older people can often be treated successfully

Toddlers unlikely to suffer long-term harm from caustic substances

Vaccine against RSV could benefit those at higher risk

Reducing mistakes in drug administration to children

Africa: the case for more nurses

Colin Parish

Health policy terminated

Abolition of community nurse posts may harm deprived children’s health

Colin Parish

News in brief

Growth in welsh student numbers grinds to a halt

Health secretary invites community nurses to summits

Trusts to grasp needlestick issues

Nurses work with paramedics to hit 30-minute targets for thrombolysis

Christian Duffin

Sweep started on lymphoedema

Home comforts in labour room deliver more relaxed birthing

Sue Learner

Censorship on open wards

Nurses walked off their feet for distant supplies

Sarah Harrison

Follow a patient’s journey to make the links

Happy staff vital to quality care, Hewitt warns NHS managers

Sarah Harrison

Wake up to refugee nurse skills

How clean is your ward?

Limit visitors to help cut hospital infections

Sarah Harrison

Nurses and doctors unite in call for an end to African skills drain

Colin Parish

Moffatt talks up education

Make ethical recruitment reality

Gray Jean