Endometriosis

Dinah Gould

Developing an integrated mental health nursing team

Sue Shannon-Jones, Andrea Surridge, Julia Boden

Deflation of a Foley catheter balloon

John Robinson

Don’t ask for one ‘yes’ vote on two separate issues

Helen Savage

Providing care for older people is an art in itself

Jane Parkinson

CPHVA is open-minded about direct entry

Mark Jones

Why should I accept less money for the same work?

Wendy Lepke-Brown Kent

The cat’s out of the bag on NHS waiting list figures

Sabina Ahmed

We all need a little laughter

Irene Broadbent

Clinical Pocket Reference for Nurses

Kath Evans

Integrating Care for Older People: New care for old – a systems approach

Sharon Blackburn

Practice that backs up the theory

Sharon Blackburn

Clinical pocket reference for nurses Paul Ong

Kath Evans

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

Margaret Paul

Opportunity knocks

Clare Jacobs

Opportunity knocks

Ben Bowers

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Outside in

David Newnham

The ego’s last stand

Stephen Wright

Dress for success

John Gristwood

Notes and queries on Agenda for Change

Realistic goals?

Chris Swonnell

Starting out

Lin Goward

Opportunity knocks

Duncan Clarkston, Dean-David Holyoake, Frances Wheatley, Jane Brown

Time crimes

Jane Bates

Standard life - Mind your manners – or you might give nurses a bad name

Daniel Allen

Taking a flexible approach

A rotation programme that works

What kept you?

Freedom at a premium

Christian Duffin

Treating type 2 diabetes intensively improves health

Brains of pre-term babies can compensate for injury

Under and oversleeping increases heart disease risk

HRT can protect some diabetic women from MI

Art of healing

Lynne Pearce

On the move

Tories plan to dismantle national pay bargaining

Bill Doult

Having a ball

Cash boost for public health

Minister’s promises fail to reassure Scottish nurses

Time to deliver, politicians told

Trusts must get competitive

Nursing homes need more GP attention

Mullally to retain seat on management board

On the buses

Tsar plans new roles in emergency care services

Paul Dinsdale, Christian Duffin

Hearts in mind

News in brief

Hand-hygiene project is a clean winner with patients

Chris Bowles

Disappointment over pay scales

Christian Duffin, Colin Parish

News

Career progress assessed in ‘dimensions’

End in sight for milk voucher system

Pressure pointers

Children’s framework will spell out services

Trusts face penalties if they disrupt local recruitment

Christian Duffin

Putting the spin on the business of trusts

Valued nurses stay put

Tim Madge