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Phobias: nature, assessment and treatment

Paul Rogers, Kevin Gournay

The management of venous leg ulcers: a project to improve care

Clare Morrell, Xiao Hui Liao, Francine Cheater, Carol Dealey, Andrea Nelson

Promoting evidence-based education in tissue viability

Karen Ousey

A proactive approach to wound infection

Andrew Kingsley

Advanced nursing practice in intermediate care

Angie Clegg

Action in support of distressed farmers

Jules Bukowski

The modern matron could repeat same old mistakes

Gwen Henderson

Letter

Martin Jeanett

The use of Malarone as malaria chemoprophylaxis

Elspeth Cameron Bedford

In search of a nursing friend from World War II

Underqualified staff are performing complex tasks

R Everett Kent

Care of older people: getting the nation's priorities right

June Cole

Timely study of risk management

Marie Wheatley

Primary Care and the Social Services: Developing New Partnerships for Older People

Pam Milward

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Pain drain

Julie Brown

Ask the experts

Flower power

FO Ettinger

Outside

David Newnham

Under lock and key

Mark A Robinson, Chris Bassett, Sue Hopkins

Chorus of disapproval

Professor Stephen

The tissue viability society

Christine Moffatt

Tricia's medicine

Lynne Pearce

Here to stay

Boys and their toys

Charlotte Alderman

Navigating the new pension highway

Healy Pat

Out in the cold

Christian Duffin

Observed treatment in TB has no better outcomes

‘Normal’ smear results should include warning

Better lithium knowledge offers hope for new drugs

Mixed feeding increases risk of HIV transmission

Older people denied treatment

Research often overlooked

Students learn poor hand hygiene

Public health intervention skills must be improved

Nurse-led diabetes project improves quality of life

Rael Martell

Lucky numbers

On the move

News in brief

Work has begun on diversity action plan

Lack of evidence hampers care

Managers uiged to tackle inequality at senior level

Paul Stuart

Confederation wants to scrap outpatient system

Marcia White, Pat Healy

New pension options for nurses

GPs to prescribe yoga sessions

TB tests for school children

Modern matron: the role

Milbum’s matrons will have power to ‘put things right’

Christian Duffin

'We've been here all the time'

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Consumer groups fail to secure life bans

Lay members are slow to accept new council jobs

Christian Duffin

Blowing in the wind

Ministers listen to midwives

Catching your man is half the battle

Matron to the rescue

Jean Gray