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With healing in mind

Thomas Currid

A dignified outlook for end of life care

Frances Pickersgill

Start on the right foot

Vincent Tremayne

Anticoagulant therapy

Sarah Hallett

A learning resource for developing effective mentorship in practice

Lorna Anderson

Promoting sexual health in women who have sex with women

Victoria Ripley

Using targeted information to meet the needs of surgical patients

Michael John Pritchard

Absence of common sense on this nursing placement

Bríd Hehir

How many are really for or against assisted suicide?

Monica Savage

Simulation has a key role in the educational environment

Karen Murrell

Let’s unite in valuing the contribution we all make

Gordon Lees

Cutting medicinal waste requires further investment

Sue Jordan

High flyers need help to get their ideas off the ground

Rosemary Cook

We must not overlook the vital role played by fathers of young patients

Greta McGough

The Heart Specialist

Paul Sayer

To Chernobyl With Love

Laurence Dopson

The Nursing Companion

Helena Parish

Leaky Gut

Greta McGough

Not such fun

A cross-Channel trip has David Newnham fumbling with his French vocabulary

The riots remind us how much nurses do for our country

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

Hospice placement reminded me that nursing is about caring

Camille Short

Starting out - Hospice placement reminded me that nursing is about caring

Camille Short

A case of a stubborn patient or poor communication?

Jan Halstead

Readers panel – incentive for change

Paul Jebb, Jane Scullion, Alison Crumbie, Scott Justice

VOICES The riots remind us how much nurses do for our country, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Outside In

David Newnham

Sobering thought

Stephen Wright

On the right track

Mary-Claire Mason

A brighter prognosis

Elizabeth Lynch

Pinpointing pain

Ann Jaloba

Keep the ill informed

Lynne Wallis

UK needs iodine supplements to prevent impairment

‘The aim is to give optimum treatment’

Effect of concurrent sexual partnerships on HIV infection rate

Nurses’ smoking behaviour affects their attitude to cessation

Vitamin D3 boosts survival levels in some older women

Deans demand central role in commissioning of education

Launch of degree-based curricula marks historic moment for nursing

Pension scheme is the only privilege NHS nurses have

Jane Brown

Call for clarity over replacement for patient safety organisation

Tamsin Snowand, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurse prescribers say restrictions to their remit are affecting care

Drug launch on twitter breached code

War museum presents family’s experience

Staff told to use set clinical language

More jobs at risk as regulator closes third Castlebeck care home

News in brief

Nurse advice reduces time in hospital

Health workers use equality law to refuse role in abortion care

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Blood pressure prompts ten stone weight loss

Nurse leaders seek assurance that workforce demand will be met

Academics take issue with BBC’s ‘hostile’ portrayal of Nightingale

Lincolnshire students back on placement

Support group for substance abuse specialists faces closure

Exam joy for nursing hopefuls

Placement performance to play key role in students’ final marks

Erin Dean

High hopes for education

Graham Scott