Built on hope

Chris Barton

Expanding professional horizons

Jilly Bradshaw

Try some variety

Seraphim Patel

Knee replacement surgery

Urinary tract infection: diagnosis and management for nurses

Wendy Naish, Matt Hallam

Developing service provision for patients in primary care

Jeannett Martin, Gillian Black, Stephen Cleverdon, Denise Kelly, Hilary Shanahan, Donna Kinnair, Sue Southon, Sue Webb

Experiences of patients with type 2 diabetes starting insulin therapy

Anne Phillips

Is sharing smartcards misconduct or not?

Louise Robertson

Reflection should be the basis of clinical supervision

Julie Lister

Scrapping uniforms would improve communication

Bev Breen

I worry that all the work will go to graduate nurses

Chantelle Haworth

Job guarantee for new nurses would make economic sense

Frances Moran

Mental health nursing still faces prejudice and stigma

Sarah Higgins, Milton Keynes

The good old days failed to deliver ‘general’ education

Mark Whiting

Non-gynae disorders may account for menorrhagia

Allison Greig

Our A&E is the best in the country but the hospital still faces closure

Janice Harber

Birth Crisis

Debby Holloway

You Can Stop Smoking - Your Personalised Plan to Give Up for Good

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Eye Infirmary

Laurence Dopson

Readers Panel: Dice role for NHS

Brendan McMahon, Steve Flatt, Bríd Hehir, Sue Szczepanska

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Gill Robertson

Worth a look

Jane Bates

David Newnham has the chance to shape policy snatched away from him

David Newnham

Challenge the bullies

Zeba Arif

Voices - modern nurses will manage care across patient pathways, says Chris Beasley

Chris Beasley

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Starting out - patients’moralchoicesmust be understood and respected

Ana Rodrigo

Who does what and when?

Lynee Paerce

Notice board

Nurses should be open with patients about their records

Jennifer Monahan

Nursing home initiative not the success it claims to be

Andrew Makin

We regularly do unpaid work but where is the gratitude?

Lei Foster

Top tips for a fine romance

The language of love

Mothers of premature babies benefit from taped conversations

People with low blood pressure may be prone to depression

Subinfection with hepatitis C after needlestick injury

Nurses’ experience of going on strike in Ireland in 1999

More options for mothers

Tamsin Snow

Full steam ahead for nurses’ move into commissioning role

Tamsin Snow

Blowing away childhood asthma

Research finds today’s students more honest

Better care for older people saves money

Specialist nurse role highlighted to government

‘Alarming’ diabetes service findings

Injured midwife wins chance to appeal compensation ruling

James Brewster

News in brief

Chief nurse post in Northern Ireland could be scrapped

Dh faces race relations act investigation

Research reveals that nurses are not using complex breakaway techniques

Colin Parish

Campaign highlights blood pressure risk

Community cuts ‘sabotaging public health’

Above-inflation pay awards for executives and directors

Staff levels on table at RCN congress

Nurses ‘can renew patient detention’

Freemasons bearing gifts visit A&E units

NMC rule on promoting services may conflict with choice agenda

Tamsin Snow

Judges give lamb warmer the chop

Trusts deny exploiting graduates by offering unpaid preceptorships

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Get down to business

Tim Madge