Visual impairment in older people: the nurse’s role

Sue Watkinson

Estimating date of discharge at ward level: a pilot study

Liz Lees, Catherine Holmes

Implementing a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive critical care

Carole Butler-Williams, Paul Snelling, Liz Duffy

Public spirited or plain mad?

Stephen Weeks

Nurses’ privacy rights

Steph Bolton

Heart patients need to learn skills

Claire Leathem

The patient is always right

Barbara Selvon

Health care is a business these days

Leslie Chafin

NHS Direct call handlers under stress

Colleague support is another core value

Karen Dear

International Public Health Patients’ Rights v the Protection of Patents

Chris Eberhardie

Nurse-led clinics – Practice issues

Jody Bailey

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Those three little words

Michelle George

Falling stars

Jane Bates

Heart of the matter

Rose Gallacher

Opportunity knocks

Josie Irwin

Make time for new plans

Jennifer Percival

Starting out - Student Jennifer Mussett learned to listen to instructions

Jennifer Mussett

Standardlife

Daniel Allen

My cover story

Zeba Arif

Talking quality

Jill Holmes

Watching you

Chris Barber, Bunis Paukham, Julie Walden, Paul Jebb

Maternal instinct

Lynne Pearce

Encouraging nature to act

Stephen Wright, Jean Sayre-Adams

Baha’i faith

When tomorrow comes

A new voice for employers

Colin Parish

Strong under pressure

Colin Parish

Determinants of disability in older people identified

Pizza ingredients offer cardiovascular benefits

Excessive crying in babies marker for poor development

Pregnancies and early puberty cut lymphoma risk

Call for national guidance in elderly care assessment

Sarah Harrison

Therapists face tighter controls

Allowance rises come under fire

Agencies pressed to sign ethics code

News in brief

Former chief nurse made a dame

Surge in fake medicines prompts call for vigilance

Christian Duffin

Volunteers told to wait as disaster relief is organised

Pat Healy

Move to restric range of job titles

Teams target festive season binge drinking

Trusts must prove benefits for staff

Varying rates for unsocial hours ‘undermines deal’

Sarah Harrison

York nurses deliver six of the best

Nurses urged to support campaign

Peak times for cravings revealed

Readers back a smoke-free NHS

Christian Duffin

Outside in

David Newnham

There are absolutes in life

Julie Jorden

Other faiths

Hands on care

Elizabeth Lynch

Christian science

Judaism

Islam

Travellers

ASIAN – Indian subcontinent

Good scents

Amanda Howarth

Seventh day adventists

Rastafarianism

Mormons

Jehovah’s witnesses

Sikhism

Buddhism

Chinese people

African and Caribbean