‘Quality isn’t free’

Thelma Agnew

Work-based learning with staff in an acute care environment: a project review and evaluation

Philip Kemp, Jenny Rooks, Lorna Mess

Providing care for prisoners: reaching the unreachable?

Pablo Vandenabeele, Barrie Green, Stefan Barr

The needs of staff who work with women in single-sex wards

Louise Phillips

Clinical supervision in a remote island setting

Ewen Taylor, Keith Austin, Jennifer Gibb

Service user and carer views on crisis and respite services

Alan Simpson

Watching a specialist video helps decisions in dementia care

Acute cannabis use in individuals who are prone to psychosis

Childhood mental health affects chances in later life

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Fundamentals of mental health nursing

Nigel P Short

Early psychosocial interventions in dementia

Hywel Thomas

The divided self – poetry and mental distress

Lesley Warner

End of an era

Geoff Brennan

Dialectical behaviour therapy

Richard Lakeman

Teams need leaders

Chris Hart

Trusts failing black and minority service users

Catherine Jackson

Nurses take lead role in revamped services

Christian Duffin

Prison suicide rate ten times greater than in average population

Mental health experts vie for top Nursing Standard award

Community treatment orders find favour among clinicians

Care homes urged to improve standards

Parental mental illness could compromise children’s safety

Colin Parish

News in brief

A reasonable response

Colin Parish