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Primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Sarah-Louise Garratt

Diagnosis and treatment of patients with prostate cancer: the nurse’s role

Bruce Turner

Supporting mentors in practice

Kathryn Sharpies, Dawn Kelly, Karen Elcock

Peak expiratory flow measurement

Rachel Booker

Should nurses prescribe blood components?

Elizabeth Pirie, Jan Green

Only ourselves to blame if we lose public trust

Margaret Charteris

Scheme to train prisoners in health care could be extended

Pete Coleman

Insight series refreshing in this age of medicalisation

Kenneth Day

Nurses can refer directly on choose and book system

Sarah Giles

Time for listening is over – brown needs to start acting

Stephen Weeks

Students should not have to shoulder bad practice

Personal care is an integral part of basic nursing skills

Miriam Atkinson

Change for the sake of change does not bring improvements

Pauline Hughes

Help comes with a price tag for those with disabilities

Victoria Clinton, Berkshire

Nicola heazell’s unique experience adds to the quality of her nursing

Edith Andrews

Support for nurses who are ill, injured or disabled

Vivienne Ferris

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

Margaret Paul

An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis - A Manual for Family Workers

Alister Campbell

The AIDS Pandemic - The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness

Drew Payne

Medication - Knowledge Set

Sue Jordan

Webwise

Joanne Hardy

The science bit

Keith Nuthall

Relative values

Heavyweights join health fight

Anne Diamond

Starting out-Try to understand the patient ’s feelings about being looked at

Rebecca Lewis

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Refusing gifts

Stephen Weeks, Roger Cowell, Jane Scullion, Esther Tanton

Voices-Perhaps common sense should prevail when it comes to objection

Rosemary Cook

Outside In

David Newnham

Creative thinking

Janet Smith

Bottle rage

Jane Bates

Put value in evaluation

Karen Elcock

Home sweet home

Stuart Keeling

An A&E-based screening project is helping nurses to identify domestic abuse. Alison Moore reports

Alison Moore

Time to let loose

Carol Davis

Late cord clamping may benefit newborns for several months

Continuous wear contact lenses safe for most people

Patients under-report swallowing problems to primary care staff

Four walk-in centres in Liverpool have gone paperless and boosted communication links

Four walk-in centres in Liverpool have gone paperless and boosted communication links

Effecting change, but at what cost?

National ballots will test nurses’attitudes to taking industrial action over pay

Christian Duffin

How to be money wise

Carol Davis

New zealand, new life

Sarah Walker

Meditation matters

Stephen Wright

World health body to investigate why it employs few nurses

‘No time to lose’ in creating women’s agency

Strikes over pay gap in ghana

Immigration agency admits new mother was wrongly detained

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Green team gets new set of wheels for home visits

News in brief

Maternity review will enable staff to make the case for change

Government ‘ignores’ lack of male nurses

Palestine’s health workers go without pay for a year as international sanctions bite

International envoy to visit Libya to seek release of Bulgarian staff

Sarah Harrison, Petra Kendal

Health employers quizzed on pay and training

National CPD standards needed to protect nurse prescribers

Redundancy plan is ‘blatant cost-cutting’

No nurse in learning disability inquiry

NHS trusts £500m in the black while staff left ‘short-changed’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Ban puts nurses at risk

MPs urged to back £1,000 fines for bad behaviour in hospitals

Christian Duffin

Fine those who attack staff

Tim Madge