Reach a wider audience

Jane Redfern Jones

My practice

Dina Leifer

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the NICE guideline

Rachel Booker

Developing a paediatric asthma review pro forma

Michele Harrop, Laweh Amegavie

Not our job to ration care

Vivienne Smith Steyning

Discussion on role of school nurses

Tom Murray

Be proud of the health service

Yvonne Edmondson

Talk of prejudice restricts free thinking

Barry Napier Swansea

Challenging conditions

Zeba Arif, Harrow

‘How are you?’ are my favourite words

Margaret Boles Dublin

Dispatches documentary missed the point

Debbie Kings

More staff will improve service

Janet Harrison

Getting research into practice

Owen Barr

Exploding the myths on self - harm

Helen Russell-Johnson

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

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Linda Thomas

Linda Thomas

Shining example

Patricia Swain

Down but not out

Jane Bates

Sharon Dennis

Sharon Dennis

Raising the stakes

Steve Flatt, Sue Szczepanska, Brid Hehir, Brendan McMahon

Starting Out - Student Iain Pearson faces the reality of his learning disability

Iain Pearson

The science bit

Lynne Pearce

Stage fright

Tim Turner

Who’s the boss?

Standardlife

Daniel Allen

Making the grade: introducing the four runners-up

The go-getter

Dina Leifer

Meet Nurse Fi

Adele Waters

Self discovery

Stephen Wright, Jean Sayre-Adams

‘Sadly i was not surprised’

Stephen Wright, Hazel Heath

Nursing on trial

Christian Duffin

Neck and arm complaints common in general practice

Quality of life improves after surgery for cataracts

Significant rise in out of hours ambulance calls

Bowel prep unnecessary before colorectal surgery

Poor prognosis pushes up complementary spending

Lucy Gooding

Support services show white bias

Home chemotherapy set to be expanded

Efficacy of evercare challenged

Resistance to compulsory drug reaction reports

Community matron roles defined

Sarah Harrison

Government told to set clearer TB action targets

Paul Dinsdale

Screening policy is ‘ineffective’

On the move

Schwarzenegger provokes nurses’ wrath

Representatives appear at first NHS assembly

Makeover for RCN

Judges to scrutinise alert letters sent ‘too hastily’

Christian Duffin

Nurses at documentary trusts face viewers’ abuse

Christian Duffin

Attrition rates treble

News in brief

Get on yer bike and be a nurse

The power of television

Jean Gray