A streamlined service

Sue Cameron

Conducting sensitive patient interviews

Bob Price

Diabetes and hyperglycaemia

Brian Houltram, Mike Scanlan

Assessing pain in cognitively impaired older adults

Julie Murdoch, Debra Larsen

Care assistants keep system going

Sue Hattingh

Walk-in centre pay parity

Maria Gough

Questions remain unanswered

Peggy Pryer

Recruitment review long overdue

Paul O’Toole

Another level of care staff

Diane Harrison

Standing up for smokers’ rights

Sue Jones

Students are kept in the dark

Erzsebet Toth

Missing pension contributions are a bolt from the blue

Angela Stoneham

Communication and Language

Wendy Boothroyd

Human Growth and Development Through the Lifespan

Francis Biley

Outside In - David Newnham has an entertaining wait at hospital

David Newnham

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

Margaret Paul

Nurses have been waiting years to get a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work

Beverly Malone

Are we really too posh to wash?

Jeremy Bore

Unite to fight

Starting Out - Student Roxanne Crosby reflects on a painful experience

Roxanne Crosby

Changing motions

Jean Abad

On reflection seeing a dog running around a nursing exhibition is not so strange

Linda Thomas

Standard life - Some practitioners have to be gay, straight and asexual all in one day

Daniel Allen

Readers panel

Christopher Humm, Marie John, Moyra Baldwin, Stephen Weeks

One day it could be you

Jane Bates

Talking quality

Heather Evans

Who needs rules?

Helen Caulfield

Polish survivors tell their stories

‘It was kinder to do it gently and with dignity’

Pillow talk

Lynne Pearce

Fishing for Foucault

Daniel Allen

Use your vote

Sue Learner

Conversion factor

Sarah Harrison

Family medical histories are not always accurate

Chemotherapy regimen for head and neck cancer feasible

Reflective clothing and light helmets protect bikers

Mortality patterns reflect changes in alcohol intake

Smokers will quit if nurses help

Northern Ireland urged to clarify abortion rules

Sarah Harrison

On the move

BME care advice to be formalised

NMC to debate skills labs training

Agencies offer a ‘realistic and cost-effective’ solution

Colin Parish

Staff cuts at top nursing school

Overweight patients face prejudice in health care

Lynne Wallis

Union calls for boost in number of school nurses

Pollution tougher on obese children

Pupils learn perils of fizzy drink

Ambassadors tell their stories online

Campaign wins Tory support

RCN worried by end of ‘vital’ nursing post

UK backs push for code of conduct on recruiting

Colin Parish

Trust appeals for political neutrality from its nurses

Chronic illness scheme under fire

News in brief

Obesity: it is up to us

Tim Madge