Clinical audit in practice

Jan Cooper, Marian Benjamin

Patient care at diagnosis: a planned education approach

Clare Vile

NVQs and practice assessment in a pre-registration course

Teresa Lombardi, Jane Lovegrove, Deborah Hatfield, Sandy Fuggle, Sue Ball

Obituary - Matthew Harding-Price

Outside In

David Newnham

Crowded placements detract from experience

Marion Onslow

Strategies for quality learning

Joanne Carr, Heather Coppard

Random testing will protect patients

Julie Morrison

Clearer medicine labelling is overdue

Angela Scarlett

It is simple: cycle helmets save lives

Mathew O’Connor

No Angels represents student life

Steven Lawrenson

TV show inadvertantly hits the mark

RCN Scotland launches campaign for nurses and patients

Jane McCready

Improving Sexual Health Advice

Mark Dyer

Primary Care Training and Development

Garfield Griffiths

There are important differences between nursing care in the UK and in Kenya

Lucy Wanyoike

Some rules can be broken

Jo Harper

Media watch

Jason Warriner

An extraordinary job

Steve McCabe

Cerebral matters

Andrea Morgan

Nurses' support is giving junior doctors relief from long hours

Linda Thomas

Readers Panel - Time for bed?

Christopher Humm, Marie John, Moyra Baldwin, Stephen Weeks

Starting Out - Listening changed student Susan White’s view of mental health

Susan White

The science bit

Would you be nursed by you?

Sharon Dennis

All we need are gloves

Jane Bates

Standard life - Daniel Allen takes an anthropological look at public health

Daniel Allen

New order for offenders

Angela Dolan, Patrick McKee

Reference queries

Nigel Northcott, Emma Higgins

An extraordinary job

Steve McCabe

Pride at work

Adele Waters

The final choice

Lucy Gooding

On the wing

Lynne Pearce

Pride at work

Time to take control

Pre-operative scrubbing safe without use of brushes

‘Natural’ alternatives to Viagra may pose health risks

Red meat eaters at increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Bullied children may display symptoms of child abuse

Homes protest over medication

Budget positive on future of NHS

Nursing endorsements rejected

Review aims to iron out differences in workloads

Sarah Harrision, Colin parish

More education needed on risks of dairy products

Thelma agnew

News In brief

No time for vital team meetings

Concern over drift to management

Blair initiative got off to a ‘shocking start’

Failure to recognise pain in patients with dementia

Mine’s a pint

Housing scheme braced for flood of applications

Adele Waters

London properties out of reach

Washes may cut MRSA in children

Nurses will not use inferior hoists

Midwives put off by large-scale services

To the heart of the matter

No time for complacency over numbers

Unison breaks ranks over agreed October deadline

Colin Parish

Ex-RCN officer to appeal verdict

Profession defends agency staff as trust chief resigns

Graham Scott

MR urges recruits to enjoy ‘a fine career’

Cause for celebration

Jean Gray