Nanny state

Margaret Nye

Suctioning techniques for the removal of respiratory secretions

Tina Moore

Using clinical governance to standardise an epidural service

Jacquie Trim, Fiona Fordyce, Sharron Dua

Critical companionship: part 1

Angie Titchen

Parents of sick children have to fend for themselves in hospital

Sue Richmond-Alien

Times have changed… for the better?

Jill Ivory

Financial compensation solves nothing

Karen Chilver

Consultant nurses need support

Lisa Carroll

Nurses can resist the blame culture

Paul Stewart-Davies

Get to grips with the ‘living will’

Karen Sanders

Working as HCAs is not the answer

Joy Longden

Thankful for a supportive placement

Sharon Wegiel

It pays older nurses to keep working

Alex Dow

E-Pathways Computers and the Patient’s Journey Through Care

Stuart Cable

Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare

Jody Bailey

Outsidein

David Newnham

Seasonal adjustment

Margaret Paterson

Don’t push me too far

Jane Bovey

A fresh perspective on health

Lucy Owens

Starting out - Denise Dunn used personal experience to benefit patients

Denise Dunn

Take a reality check

Jennifer Percival

My world

Jane Bates

Beyond a joke

Alex McClimens

Research notes

Paula McLaren

A fond farewell

Maureen Raper

Readers panel - Worried sick

Mat O’Connor, Linda Drake, Ian Hulatt, Kate Chapman

Standard life - Words can be tricky to handle at the best and worst of times, says Daniel Allen

Daniel Allen

Living on borrowed time

Jo Carlowe

Stairway to the top

Tired of waiting

Lucy Gooding

Right up to the end

Colin Parish

At your assistance

Christian Duffin

Tacrolimus safe and effective in children with dermatitis

Falling more frequent in older women with chronic disease

Hip fractures reduced by taking thiazide diuretics

Surgery improves quality of life in hyperhidrosis

Base decisions on facts, not instinct

Ruth Chauhan

Staff sign up to show their support for care campaign

Sophie Blakemore

A study in concentration

Suicide prevention strategy endorsed

Suspending staff wastes millions

Sarah Harrison

Health in post-war Iraq ‘devastated for decades’

Colin Parish

On the move

Needle infection risks highlighted

Trusts warned to test staff from new EU countries

Magnet hospitals attract UK visitors

Plans to change negligence procedures alarm NAAC

Christian Duffin

Legal victory for attacked nurse

Minister reacts to A&E feedback

Lest we forget

Nurses to ballot on strike action over care standards

Nigel Burnham

News in brief

Award-winner focuses on medicine management

RCN’s lead negotiator to leave post

High expectations

Retirement sparks fears that diversity will suffer

Colin Parish

Inspectors find NHS Direct ‘well-regarded’ by patients

Christian Duffin

Trial proves the healing value of artful designs

Nurse of the year honour is shared

Caribbean countries want nurses back

Iraq war’s terrible cost

Jean Gray