Vocationally related qualification in understanding HIV and AIDS

Choosing from a wider pool of talent

Mary Crawford, Alison While

Notice board

A winning attitude

Student life - More than merely ‘clever’

Benny Goodman

Hypothyroidism

Supporting patients undergoing cataract extraction surgery

Joanne Hardy

Nursing students’ attitudes to biomedical science lectures

Abdul-Kadhum Al-Modhefer, Sean Roe

End of life care pathways: ethical and legal principles

Peter Allmark, Angela Tod

Relieving staff stress would boost safety and efficiency

Gilly Workman

Babs steele was a fighter who will be sorely missed

Elizabeth Anionwu

Without an nhs email account i cannot access research

Charlotte Hudd

Rotating shift patterns are as strenuous as night shifts

Brenda Clarke, Saffron Walden

Ongoing support is needed to prevent repeat crises

Lynn Miller

Letter

Nurse directors do not have the time to take on a heavy clinical caseload

Derek Barron, Katherine Guellard, Martin Sliver

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

Margaret Paul

Issues in Ophthalmic Practice – Current and Future Challenges

Karen McColgan

Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Nurses

Ian Peate

Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora – The ‘Abortion Trail’ and the Making of a London-Irish Underground, 1980-2000

Laurence Dopson

Webwise

Rachael Rowe

Starting out-Smallgestureofrespecthelped adyingchild’sgrievingfamily

Jayne Steer

Readers panel - Do patients care about ‘choice’? We asked our readers panel

Linda Drake, Alison Crumbie, Bríd Hehir, Carol Singleton

Radical changes

Liz Fradd

VOICES-Nurses have plenty of political clout - especially with an election looming

Linda Thomas

VOICES-Nurses have plenty of political clout - especially with an election looming

Linda Thomas

Preventing oral cancer

Elizabeth Lynch

Giving the benefit of her experience

Jenny Knight

Eye spy

Jane Bates

Outsidein - David Newnham puts his finger on yet another ailment

David Newnham

A creative connection

Christian Duffin

An unbearable power

Jenny Knight

90 years strong

Richard Willis

Ginkgo offers benefit in treatment of postviral smell loss

All measures of obesity associated with venous thromboembolism

High oxygen level does not reduce surgical site sepsis

Proactive approach is linked to improved neck pain relief

Midwifery in the spotlight as politicians vie for votes

RCN urges compulsory training for every healthcare support worker

Nurses given power to remove antisocial patients and relatives

Danielle Weekes

‘Pension penalises me for being a man’

Peer casts doubt on viability of family nurse partnership posts

Prescribing law changes delayed again

Honour for reducing trust infection rates

News In brief

A third of acute trusts has no early warning system for patients

Body piercing game wins grant

Dr Foster considers adding nurse staffing levels to hospital guide

Inspectors say nursing agencies are getting better

Lung cancer services audit points to value of specialist practitioners

Team prepares for action

Salary body likely to approverise

Extra training essential for staff redeployed to children’s ICUs

Inspections at Basildon may lead to fitness to practise charges

Erin Dean

Dismissed director to appeal

You get what you pay for

Graham Scott