A World of difference

Marie Watton

The individual with epilepsy

Judith Lanfear

Integrated care pathways for patients with complex needs

Wendy Brett, Joanne Schofield

Inside knowledge

Jaquelina Hewitt-Taylor

Obituary

Laurence Dopson

Annual pay round is turning into a fiasco

Elizabeth Reynolds

Shortages set to worsen as the States lures recruits

Bob McArdle

Theatre placements would surely whet the appetite

Susan Murray

Your chance to join in with complementary medicine

Nicola Manson

Help out when called on - it could be you one day

Alice Schofield

The danger of turning a drama into an emergency

Gail Power

Students don’t know the meaning of ‘undervalued’

Jane Reynolds

What makes you think I want to be a doctor?

Anthony Mulroy

Nurse Prescribing

Annie Chellel

Ask the experts

The confidence booster

Lynn Spicer

Healthy profit

Richard Wilson

Research notes

Adrienne Willcox, Judy Gleeson

‘How can we relate to the situation in Africa, where war, famine and disease are reducing life expectancy?’

Linda Thomas

Protection plan

Najma Saleem

Eeee, we ‘ad it rough

Jane Bates

Outside

David Newnham

Readers panel - An end to ‘them and us’

Frances Portman, David Mellors, Tracey Swallow

Living

Sian Davies

Standard life - Don Giovanni’s end could have been so different, if only he’d had a good community nurse

Daniel Allen

Political persuasion

Pat Healy

Return to Ethiopia

Brid Hehir

Shoulder high

Mary Hampshire

D for desperate

No luxuries

Nurses are for life

Time for a living wage

Graham Scott

Time for a living wage

Graham Scott

Type of education is not important in diabetes

Older people risk damage to feet from ill-fitting shoes

Self-help intervention gets employees walking

Vaccine might help smokers to quit - or never start

Amicus and NATN tie the knot

Zero rating overlooks nurses’ hard work

Warning over blocked tubes

Star system confuses and demoralises hospital staff

Pat Healy

Registration delays mean patients lose out on care

Christian Duffin

Students hit by nursery fee hike

Free equipment for older people

Long way to go in stroke services

Email for all NHS staff

£1bn lifeline for care home sector

Paul Dinsdale

Eye spy noddy

DoH delays changes f to agency standards

Training boost for Afghanistan

Call for a radical overhaul of hospital discharge plans

Paul Dinsdale

News in brief

Forced to do two jobs

Paul Stuart

RCN to stay in pay talks despite anger at offer

Christian Duffin

Foundation status would ‘set trusts against trusts’

Pat Mealy

Accepting prizes is breach of code

Employers urged to pep up English tests

Climb in and take a deep breath

Beware falling into the xenophobia trap

Two jobs to survive

Jean Gray