Fruitful labours

Page Lesley

Management of patients with breast cancer

Tracey McCready

A case for a pre-registration branch in primary care nursing

Milly Smith

Drug misuse by patients in an inner-city hospital

Karen Sinclair, Des Collins, John Potokar

Outside in: Choose your syndrome with care and you too can be a star, says David Newnham

David Newnham

Why should those in agony suffer until the bitter end?

Has Tony Blair duped us over Agenda for Change?

Lesley Street Hove

What about nurses who qualify after the pay deal?

Joy Longden

Rationing health care could get complicated

Kate Smith

Personality is an important factor in dietary advice

Anne Hazelgrove

Fundamental principles lacking in some nurses

Robert Dudley

Agency staff will only come back if conditions improve

Judith Veal

Patients lose out because of catheterisation ban

Lindsay Brannigan

Practical Chemotherapy

Lisa Dougherty

Bold view of an uncertain world

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

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

Margaret Paul

Stop and think

Steve Maddern

This season’s must-have

Jane Bates

Know your mind

Jennifer Percival

Some are more equal

Mike Lehane

Marked out for good practice

Lyn Garbarino

On the right road

Simon Harrison-Boyle

Shaping life’s chances

Liz Kendall

Starting out

Robert Lutyens

There’s something fishy about the public’s health choices

Daniel Allen

A tying shame

The art of healing revisited

Barbara Jamera

Every move you make

Sarah Harrison

NSAIDs biggest single cause of drug-related admissions

Health risks for women who watch a lot of television

Ovarian function after multi-agent chemotherapy

Spinal mobilisation more effective for neck pain

Help people to die well, but don’t assist their death

Philip Scullion

Research Notes

Steve McNally

Making change happen

The future is bright

Canvassing opinion

Helen Caulfield

The Geneva convention

NHS director admits inflexibility

Water purifier will save millions of lives worldwide

Colin Parish

More funds needed to reduce HIV cases

Midwives should be first contact in pregnancy care

Keith Cooper, Bill Doult

Murder charge denied

Resources key to effective curb on domestic violence

Police investigate death of HCA

Nurse MI intervention helps beat targets

Trusts are slow to learn lessons of Climbié case

Sarah Harrison

Consultants reject nurse-led ward

News in brief

All breast cancer patients entitled to specialist nurse

Scale of DoH reshuffle is alarming, say Tories

Graham Scott

Mental healthcare reforms ‘not consistent’

English language test too hard for UK professionals

Colin Parish

Criticism sparks plan to review PREP checks

National pay rise given go-ahead

Colin Parish, Bill Doubt

Language hysteria smacks of xenophobia

Perseverance pays off

Gray Jean