Clinical pinnacle

Liz Redfern

Nursing management of chest drains

Liz Allibone

Benchmarking best practice in relapse management of multiple sclerosis

Nikki Embrey, Claire Lowndes, Richard Warner

The first year of a problem-based learning curriculum

Karen Ousey

Outside in

David Newnham

Are student fees the start of something big?

JO Castle Coventry

Correction

Role expansion is really just more scraps

Lesley Street

Stop treating healthcare workers as second class

Eileen Boyle

Figures don’t seem to add up for me

Marian Griffiths

We must have debate on new pay deal

Gareth Phillips

In danger of demoting health visitors

Carolyn Hurdiss

Chronic Cardiac Disease

Elizabeth Kent

In Your Own Time

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Examining a modern-day epidemic

Elizabeth Kent

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

Margaret Paul

Pay: time to have your say

John Humphreys

Our competition image will not be used again

Victoria Lush

Government showing hypocrisy on health care

Angelaphillips

Living in a material whirl

Stephen Wright

‘It would be so good to see NHS employers gain a reputation as the flexible friends of nursing’

Linda Thomas

Taken to heart

Rose Gallacher

Ask the experts

Starting out - A home visit challenged student jacqueline bain’s preconceived ideas about cleft palate

Jacqueline Bain

Here for good

Linda Bailey

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Can you manage?

Lesley Chivers, Sue Hopkins, Chris Bassett, Mike Lehane

Bright sparks

Clare Morrell

Standard life

Daniel Allen

In the hot seat

Grade H team – first at the bedside in an emergency

Pilot scheme to identify scope of nurse-led care

Doctors ‘delighted’ to be relieved of routine tasks

Intensive care team will bring new approach

Handing over

Lynne Pearce

Out-of-hours team takes strain off colleagues

The more you do, the more you get

Adele Waters

Hand rub could reduce transmission of MRSA

PTCA has better outcomes than thrombolysis in MI

Role for limiting caffeinated drinks in teenagers

Candesartan can reduce the misery of migraine attacks

Teachers strike over allowance

News in brief

Inspectors praise NHS Direct

Nurses may win free ride in congestion charge zone

Sarah Harrison

On the move

Reform could benefit from mental health innovation

Ian McMillan

It takes guts

Bowel cancer plan is welcomed

RCN officer claims unfair dismissal

Threats alleged in fraud probe

Pressure ulcer danger overlooked by nurses

Elder abuse is rife at home

Nurses fight for wages justice

Christian Duffin

RCN graduates honoured

Returners stay with flexible and friendly health service

Colin Parish

Thousands kept in hospital too long

News in brief

Congestion fees should not apply to nurses

United against suffering

Jean Gray