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Dummy run

Penny Buykx

Patient care is essential business

Flo Panel-Coates

Meet with approval

Sidone Chilufya

Divine community care

Christian Duffin

Cancer cachexia

Lorraine Drinan

Atrial fibrillation and primary stroke prevention

Charles Bloe

Pain assessment tools for older people with cognitive impairment

Aisling Ni Thuathail, Claire Welford

Improving health outcomes for people with learning disabilities

Ben Thomas, David Atkinson

Women’s Aid

Greta McGough

Can you help locate united nations hospital nurses?

Rivka Cohen

Students who drop out need compassion not criticism

Adriana Silva

Placement in Ghana provided thought-provoking story

Laura Ellison

Pressure groups have a right to lobby on assisted dying

Gordon Mackley

NMC’s action on nurse-patient friendships is heavy handed

Veronica Burton

All RCN members should be able to stand for elected posts

Tom Murray

Good work in Scotland is a guide for dementia care reform

June Andrews

Hospital experience has changed my thinking about today’s training

Liz Sanderson

Psychosis – Stories of Recovery and Hope

Tim Grace

Listening to Children and Young People in Healthcare Consultations

Amanda Norman

Long-term Conditions – A Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals

Mike Jackson

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

Starting out - simply stroking a patient’s hand helped relieve his intense pain

Gemma Baker

Highs and lows

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Putting practice to the test

Candice Pellett, Scott Justice, Shona MacLean, Sue Sczepanska

It runs in the family

John Sentamu

Voices - As winter looms, infection prevention becomes vital, warns Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

Listen carefully

Are you Pooh?

As winter looms, infection prevention becomes vital

Burning issue

Lynne Pearce

Your chance to shine

Packed and ready to go

Liz Lees

Improved daily foot hygiene may reduce likelihood of ulcers in people with diabetes

The risk of infant mortality increases for women whose first baby died in its first year

Screening programmes for breast cancer associated with rise in number of mastectomies

One glass of alcohol a day benefits women more than abstinence

Redundancy is personal

Health visitors still under pressure despite their recent ‘renaissance’

World in brief

Strong link identified between smoking in films and teenagers trying cigarettes

This is not just health care… it is M&S health care, says minister

Regulator issues fresh guidance on PREP

Call for regulation of advanced titles

Lansley pledges to cut bureaucracy and drive up nursing care standards

Bill Doult, Jennifer Sprinks

Head of Bahrain’s nurses calls for backing of profession worldwide

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Staffing levels ‘diluted’ on older people’s wards

Audit reveals shortfall in children’s unit nurses

From ward walk to catwalk for cancer care

Mid Staffs senior nurse admits she was inexperienced

Burnham briefed to challenge health reforms

Request for workers to sacrifice holiday is unfair, says RCN

RCN lobbies House of Lords in bid to secure mandatory staff ratios

Petra Kendall-Raynor

DH seeks to justify pay freeze

NMC and Unison clash over nurses’ right to take industrial action

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Jennifer Sprinks

Safe staffing levels should be mandatory

Graham Scott