Hospital for the children

Angela Houlston

First impressions count

Jane Redfern Jones

Notice board

Student life - Don’t be a code breaker

Grant Ciccone

First impressions count

Jane Redfern Jones

Hospital for the children

Angela Houlston

Don’t be a code breaker

Grant Ciccone

Self-neglect

Rose Gallacher

Management of diabetes in south asian communities in the uk

Jillian Hill

Management of diabetes in South Asian communities in the UK

Jillian Hill

Participants’evaluation of a training programme in dual diagnosis

Phil Cooper, Neil Doolin, Ian Hemming, Elizabeth Rowlands

Participants’ evaluation of a training programme in dual diagnosis

Phil Cooper, Neil Doolin, Ian Hemming, Elizabeth Rowlands

Determining guiding principles for evidence-based practice

Andrea E Dale

Improving working lives and foundation hospital status

Lei Foster

Positive hospital experience spoiled by dreadful food

Susan Clease

Changes to professional membership services

Alison Twycross

Surplus dressings sent abroad are fit for use

Paula Martin

An interview that left me offended and demoralised

Sharon Spark

Helping nurses from abroad to meet the demands of work

Andy Kephalas, Alma Kephalas

The long campaign to ban smoking in public places

David Riley

Our unit trialled an electronic drugs cabinet with a mind of its own

Dean Mackenzie

Sign up online to the NHS student hardship campaign

Louise Hunt

Pupils should be taught about mental health issues

Kenny Clarke

Students need more help and respect to get them through

Shona Cringean

Concordance in medical consultations – a critical review

Fiona Timmins

Concordance in Medical Consultations - A Critical Review

Fiona Timmins

Ethnicity and screening for sickle cell/ thalassaemia – lessons for practice from the voices of experience

Elizabeth Anionwu

Health visiting:specialist community public health nursing – second edition

Gill Watson

Ethnicity and Screening for Sickle Cell/Thalassaemia - Lessons for Practice from the Voices of Experience

Elizabeth Anionwu

Health Visiting: Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - second edition

Gill Watson

Take a deep breath

Alison Jenkins

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Christine Eberhardie

Outsidein

David Newnham

A lot like grief

Lee Bromwich

Abortion and children’s rights

Marc Cornock

Voices - The chancellor’s attitude to nurses’ pay is unfair and will deter new recruits, says Beverly Malone

Beverly Malone

The importance of being understood

Chloe Copping

Readers panel - Uniform approval

Graham Houghton, Julie Harrison, Roger Cowell, Jane Scullion

Starting out - student experiences in the real world of nursing

Carrie Dougherty

You sexy thing?

Jane Bates

The dangers of fiction

Paul Cornforth

Nobody’s child

Terry Philpot

Café culture

Carol Davis

Watching funny films may reduce risk of heart disease

Low-fat diet results in weight loss and weight maintenance

Coeliac disease risk reduced by longer breastfeeding

Evaluation of alternatives to latex gloves in theatre

Still in the line of fire

Christian Duffin

Midwives to vote on fees for ‘unnecessary’ epidurals

Malnutrition guideline may be jeopardised by lack of resources

Thelma Agnew

News in Brief

Fewer than 12% turn out for nmc elections

Nurse exposes litmus test flaw

Claims that workforce shortage is over are premature, say experts

Colin Parish

Average graduate debt is £8,000

NMC to act over students who keep failing first-year exams

Adele Waters

Academics question educational value of nursery placements

Students with dyslexia avoid hectic settings

Assistant practitioner course seeks to fill nursing staff gaps

Extra skill ‘just part of toolkit’

Doctors make more errors, survey finds

Funding doubts threaten roll out of full prescribing

Trial run for contamination response

Morale and mental health suffer as violence grows

Colin Parish

Fears over rises for staff not on agenda for change bands

Downing street ponders political ramifications of nurses’ pay deal

The most valuable resource

Jean Gray