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Maximum intensity

Sharps injury: prevention and management

Dee May, Sheelagh Brewer

Ebola haemorrhagic fever

Lisa Walker

Telemedicine in rural care part 1: developing and evaluating a nurse-led initiative

Colin Macduff, Bernice West, Sylvia Harvey

‘Duvet days’ - you must be joking

Fran MacHardy

Health system is no place for racism and sexism

Michael Page

Filipino staff have not been mistreated by us

Ron Whitehead

Reclaim the spiritual dimension of care-giving

David Ball

Where's the incentive to take responsibility?

Leslie Aldridge

New pension scheme might not be the answer

Alan Vacani

New matrons: a political move or a positive step for nursing?

Jane Edwards, Dawn Muers, Mandy Davies, E Joan Gibson, Denise Shanahan, R Allcock, Geraldine Mullins

Baby-boomers won't put up with starched matrons

Andy Bell, Kathleen Svea Manning

The Changing Shape of Nursing Practice

Linda Crofts

First stop on the cancer journey

Julietta Patnick

Pick of the week

Don’t count on it

James Buchan

Faith in healers

Fo Ettinger

Out side in

David Newnham

Will the NHS become homeless?

Linda Nazarko

Ask the experts

Meal appeal

Anne Fraser

The Meaning of love

Stephen Wright

The battle against institutional racism

Linda Thomas

Dying to know

Linda Payne

Standard life

Daniel Allen

When your number’s up

Frances Portman, Claire Pratt, Ian Hulatt

Take my advice

Jo Yarwood

Fair lady

Midwife strife

Trust in me

Pat Healy

Side by side

Christian Duffin

Silkworms could help fractured bones to heal

Anaesthetic for neonates undergoing cannulation

Effects of hypertension vary with body mass index

Colorectal cancer less likely after breast cancer diagnosis

News in brief

Huge drop in care home places

Politicians ‘out of step' on care divide, survey shows

Rael Martell

Agency launched to help reduce NHS mistakes

Colin Parish

On the move

Paediatric emergency team gets green light

No one else measures up

Nurse-led telemedicine proves popular

£25 million boost for prison service

Safety fears prompt RCM to consider industrial action

Christian Duffin

Random staff tests ruled out

Child protection referrals drop

Staff lack training about addiction

Academic claims nurses fail to help smokers quit

What ‘rogue’ document says

Code of practice could protect private sector staff

NHSE drops web page on foreign student numbers

Colin Parish

Immigration rules relaxed to boost numbers

Guidance on bed sore risk

RCN demands action on TB cases

Concern over sudden fall in registrant numbers

Pat Healy

£2.4m to boost Welsh recruits

Nurses needed from around the world

Cause and effect

Jean Gray