Primary assistance

Frances Pickersgill

Intent on success

Ruth Williams

Notice board

Are you just the job?

Kath Sharples

Chronic pain

Suzanne Taylor

Developing academic writing skills: the PROCESS framework

Marjorie Lloyd

Improving patient satisfaction with a sexual health service

Karen Sheriff

Nasogastric tube insertion in adults who require enteral feeding

Carolyn Best

A framework for providing evidence-based palliative care

Susan Shaw, Fraser Meek, Rachel Bucknall

‘Cool’ or ‘caring’ badge debate makes me cringe

Elizabeth Rodger

Survey about smokers and obese people is unbalanced

Helen Bradshaw

We put patients first only when they agree with us

Maria Nicholson

Nurses balk at enforcing sanctions on violence

People often do not know how to react to disability

Fenella Marshall

We are talking about action for the sake of a few pounds

Rahindra Pahl

Job-hunting seminars are a great benefit for students

Louise Nix

National mealtimes review simply states the obvious

Linda McGeorge

Nurses did well in the us by threatening to strike

Judy Smith

Termination is a decision for parents, not nurses

Jane Gritt

Therapies are costly but more effective than drugs

Juliette Richie

Meditation fulfils a need not met by conventional western medicine

Jeremy Danneman

The Clinical Placement - An Essential Guide for Nursing Students

Hazel Courtney

The Naked Consultation - A Practical Guide to Primary Care Consultation Skills

Brigid Breckman

Mental Health Today - A Handbook

Anthony Fraher

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

Margaret Paul

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Are children being demonised? We asked our readers panel

Julie Walden, Jane Brown, Frances Wheatley, Dean-David Holyoake

Starting out clients assessed my care-giving skills in a placement interview

Linda Appleby

You decide

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Responsible rebellion

Liam Doran

Voices

Linda Thomas

Keep older people safe

Deborah Sturdy

Webwise

Kath Sharples

Happy landing

Carol Davis

Feelgood factors

Allergies in a nutshell

Lynne Pearce

Eating fish during pregnancy protects children from atopy

Lipid levels in adult life associated with height restriction

Pneumococcal vaccine reduces hospital admission in children

Chlamydia, sexual behaviour and alcohol in young women

New RCN Scotland director takes up post in time of change

Jennifer Trueland

Action on humanitarian disasters

Sarah Harrison

Chinese nurses remain positive, despite climate of dissatisfaction

‘We all face similar challenges’

New recruits make most errors after supervision period ends

Sarah Harrison

Doctors break away from talks on regulation

NMC receives far fewer overseas applications

International leader awarded top accolade

Nurses should be allowed to carry out abortions, say doctors

Christian Duffin

Project aims to reduce injectable drug mistakes

News in brief

Violent clashes in pay strike

NHS still pays ‘depressingly high price’ for agency staff

Professions to lobby for six-days minimum continuing education

Ministers stand firm on staged award despite £510m surplus

Tamsin Snow

Scotland finds way to pay nurses 2.5 per cent

Best in Northern Ireland

Nurse lecturers to lose their jobs as Macmillan withdraws funding

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Vulnerable adults: the prevention, recognition and management of abuse

Be steadfast and resolute

Tim Madge