After words

Jeremy Benton

Added value?

Ian Hart

Meeting the standard

Carol Dimon

Profit from experience

Notice board

Meeting the standard

Carol Dimon

Vision in older people

The management of patients with long-term conditions

Jacqueline Metcalfe

The management of patients with long-term conditions

Jacqueline Metcalfe

The use of topical opioids to relieve pressure ulcer pain

Tracey Ashfield

The views of patients living with healed venous leg ulcers

Elaine Flaherty

Improving patient outcomes using a diabetic foot assessment tool

Julie Evans, Tina Chance

Cardiac resynchronisation therapy for patients with heart failure

Robert Frodsham

Effects of oral sodium picosulphate Picolax® on urea and electrolytes

Fran Ryan, Tina Anobile, Diane Scutt, Marion Hopwood, Gerry Murphy

Even students need to be treated with compassion

Mick Spode

We must not let the NHS be privatised by stealth

Karen Chilver

Thinking is not restricted to degree course graduates

Vicki Elcock

Check your entitlement to sick leave payments

Jill McMillan

More effective treatment of paracetamol poisoning

Suzanne Sargent, Fiona Pilkington, Wendy Martin, Helen Landers

While the horror never leaves us, it may make us stronger practitioners

Overcoming relationship problems

Peter Barraclough

HGV man – owners workshop manual

Colin Parish

Evidence-based wound management

Jacqueline Murray

Agenda for change

Sue Nutbrown

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Alex Attewell

Voices

Beverly Malone

Research notes

Wynne Thomas

Beauty therapy on the catwalk

Denise Dunn

Outside In

David Newnham

Courage under fire

Brian Dolan

Passion killers

Stewart Miller

Home from home

Jane Bates

Starting out

Jana Zencakova

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel – living in a state of denial

Lorraine Jeffs, Mike Lehane, Scott Justice, Carol Singleton

Follow the leader

Adrian O’Dowd

Lymphoma network

Lucy Gooding, Lymphoma

More than half of women say psoriasis improves in pregnancy

Having a cancer diagnosis increases screening uptake

Resting, exercise and recovery pulse rate predicts sudden death

Cross-species transmission of new primate retroviruses

After the bombs, nurses start to face their traumas

Sarah Harrison

Profession reacts to allegations of inappropriate control and restraint

Colin Parish

Forces woo nurses with promise of adventure

Military hospital demonstrates progressive attitude to care

Sarah Harrison

News in brief

Vascular care staff publish own guide

California nurses to stage walkout

Vapour system that eradicates mrsa fails to secure funding

Sarah Harrison

T’ai chicuts risk of falls

Scots urged to rethink roles

Big Brother nurse faces possible disrepute charge afterpool antics

Thelma Agnew

Integrated out-of-hours services remain patchy

New head at high-flyers’ association

Nhs claims victory on fraud

Aftercare is ‘inadequate’

Changes to mental health bill not radical enough, say campaigners

Colin Parish

Training needed in bomb injuries

New advice on finer points of screening

Support group will help nurses who want to run GP practices

Rcn to lobby for round the clock cleaning in new hygiene code

Sarah Harrison

Tributes for ‘inspirational’ hospice nurse

Big Brother’s poisoned chalice

Jean Gray