Growing need

Yvonne Bastian-Lee, Edwina Wooler, Maggie Bunker, Cathy Warde

An overview of chronic fatigue syndrome

Elizabeth Jackson

Learning to nurse in care homes: student support

Sue Davies, Lynn Gell, Josie Tetley, Barry Aveyard

Psychological and psychosocial effects of prostate cancer

Ann Fan

Outside in

David Newnham

Press must take some responsibility for fear

Brodie Paterson

‘Extended roles’ will mean a decline in quality of care

John Griffiths

Statutory minimum entry requirements for nurses

Cathy Taylor

Will nurses get recognition for taking on prescribing?

Steve Carver-Smith

Nurse prescribing is a step forward for patient care

Gina Johnson, Milton Keynes

NHS Professionals: good idea but it does not work

Anne Fraser

The UK’s loss will be my own country’s gain

Mat O’Connor

Adequate school toilet facilities are essential

Woody Caan

Occupational Health Nursing: Second Edition

Carol Bega

Herbal Medicines: Second Edition

Gillian James

Invaluable guide to herbs

Gillian James

What’s on: the best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Ask the experts

Sick and tired

Suzanne Quinlan

Gossip column

Jennifer Percival

I wanted to be cool

Jane Bates

Boxing clever

Christopher Wood

There is no hidden agenda

John Northrop

It depends on

Stephen Wright

Starting out

Elizabeth Bayne

Research notes

Jane Bates, Jonathan Boote, Catherine Beverley

Readers Panel - Qualified to care

Frances Wheatley, Jane Brown, Duncan Clarkson, Linda Payne

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Facing a challenge

Alison Moore

Life and death

Daniel Allen

Anthrax alert?

Philip Woodrow

Knock on effects

Colin Parish

Going up

Sarah Harrison

Oral alternative to penicillin for adult erysipelas

Death rates reduced as a result of banning coal

Rheumatoid arthritis reduces women’s lifespans

Women could take their own swabs for infection screening

Human rights claim succeeds

Gay partners ruling expected

Training key to pre-op assessments

Happy outcome after 18 months in ‘job from hell’

Adele Waters

Core group singled out for smallpox vaccination

Paul Dinsdale

Disappointment over drugs role

On the move

Remove the blame culture

Nurses are to get a schizophrenia guide

No need to fear net-savvy patients

Staff appraisals improve mortality

TB specialists’ crucial work is recognised

District nurses urged to use strict referral criteria

Julie Sylvester

Lung-term strategy

A&E best source of violence data

HIV tests ‘could deter recruits’

Trial run may be delayed

Impact felt in higher education

Union members to have formal vote on pay deal

Colin Parish

Award winners take the nursing message to Blair

Colin Parish

News in brief

RCN board chiefs to stay at top table

A chance to support people with disabilities

Happy staff, happy patients

Jean Gray