Vaccine-preventable infections in travellers abroad – meningococcal disease

Adrienne Willcox

Developing a successful local leadership programme

Julie A Cotton

Working together to manage a programme of weight loss

Carolyn Pallister, Jacquie Lavin

Patient and public participation can liberate the NHS

Andrew Craig

Youth unite to take on the tobacco industry

Gina Perigo

Patient factors in the implementation of decision aids in general practice: a qualitative study

Feasibility of web-based decision aids in neurological patients

Kathy Davis

Physicians’ awareness and attitudes toward decision aids for patients with cancer

Research focus

Kathy Davis

Prostate cancer screening and treatment research

Vari Drennan

There is a need for education on respiratory symptoms

Nurses must be involved from the start of health interventions

Risk of death highest at start of opiate substitution

Alternative therapies

Tina Bishop

Patient information

Notice board

Diary

The Menopause – Ask the Experts

Lydia Burke

Community palliative care: the role of the clinical nurse specialist

Jane Scullion

Assessment of Mental Capacity

Greg Slay

Nurses already contribute to the big society

Bethann Siviter

An uncertain future

Lynn Young

Community services face opportunities and dangers

Christian Duffin

Safety first for vulnerable staff

Alison Whyte

Debate on access to medical records reveals problems

Extra nurses could be taken on to support vulnerable families

Patients reminded that antibiotics do not cure viral infections

Simulating alcohol-induced bleariness

Filming the community

Warnings of redundancies and downgrades across the UK

Sophie Blakemore

News in brief

Time to grasp the nettle

Sue Thomas