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Essential care

Nicola Davies

Easing the step up from junior roles to taking charge of a unit

Sarah Freeman

Sorting out home delivery

Rosemary Cook

Pathway for learning

Rebecca Murray

Wound care and pain assessment

Tracey

Caring for patients with long-term conditions and depression

Mark Haddad

Implementing the quality accounts agenda in tissue viability

Richard White, Karen Ousey, Suzanne Hinchliffe

Managing acute skin reactions to radiotherapy treatment

Helen Hollinworth, Lisa Mann

Measuring the safety climate in NHS organizations

Lynne Currie, Linda Watterson

Shelagh Dickety Animal rights campaigner 1932-2009

Alexandra Murrell

Healthcare regulator is in need of inspection overhaul

Profession should be unafraid to challenge doctors

Marty Walsh

Many nurses need training in basic computer literacy

Annie Levett

Personal care provision can only be learnt on the job

Jayne Thomas

Patients’ feet are being overlooked by staff

Tricia Clark

Charitable benevolent funds can help people in difficulty

Joanne Moorby

Right to die bill makes no provision for nurses

Elissa Claire Miller

‘I do not believe I have the clinical skills needed for when I qualify’

David Taylor

Webwise

Drew Payne

Someone Has Died Suddenly – For Children and Adults to Read Together

Amanda Norman

Traditional Chinese Medicine Approaches to Cancer – Harmony in the Face of the Tiger

Annie Hallett

A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916-90 – A Voice for Nurses

Dame Betty Kershaw

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

Margaret Paul

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Family meals are good for hearts and waistlines

Anne Diamond

Four characters best left behind in the waiting room

Matt Griffiths, Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Too much, too late

Mandy Allison, Christopher Humm, Sarah Esegbona, Elsie Gayle

Starting out - People need time to collect their thoughts when told bad news

Fatima Bandali

A winter’s tale

Jane Bates

Who’s smiling?

Stephen Wright

Voices

Peter Carter

Meeting changing needs

Jason Warriner

Tempting treats

Pearce Lynne

Bosom buddies

Elizabeth Lynch

Transforming ideas into action

Stephen Wright

Heart disease risk increased in survivors of childhood cancer

Sleeping patterns and diabetes linked in older people

Dairy foods reduce risk of fibroids in black women

Oral contraceptives may aid athletes’ metabolic balance

First placement made up my mind

How we uncovered the attrition rates

I would have stayed if there had been fewer essays

The question for universities: how can they win the war on attrition?

Adele Waters

Leaving was a lifestyle choice

Tribunal rejects victimisation claim

Educators must integrate clinical skills with learning to be credible

Erin Dean

Fertility staff ‘on wrong band’

Ewe have been warned: the risks to pregnant women

Trusts failing to meet standards in basic child protection training

New gowns close the dignity gap

Managers told to cut band 5 staff numbers and replace with HCSWs

Tamsin Snow

Report highlights health inequalities for socially deprived

News in brief

Portuguese in pay protest

GP receptionists adopt nurse roles

Needlestick law will aid health staff

Mary seacole awards continue as ‘fit for purpose’

Increase in nursing applicants chasing fewer university places

Tamsin Snow

Nursing student exodus is too big a burden for UK taxpayers

Adele Waters

Time to address attrition

Graham Scott