Life giver

Brian McCalden

Headache

Ellen Welch

A guide to emollient therapy

Allyson Brown, Martyn Butcher

Wound infection and colonisation

Elizabeth Scanlon

The district nurse’s role in managing patients with heart failure

Pippa Witter

Communication about sexual problems in male patients with multiple sclerosis

Rona Rubin

OutsideIn - David Newnham can’t win in the drinking debate

David Newnham

Skills tests would miss bad apples

Frances Wheatley

Role play is not everyone’s scene

John Middleton

Employers must use best practice

Alan Mawbey

Walk in our shoes before you judge

Victoria Clinton

Stripped of dignity for the sake of TV

Colleen Barker

Celebrate the caribbean contribution

Laura Foster

Patients bring the greatest rewards

Helena Pitter

Demonstrating Your Competence 1: Healthcare Teaching

Garfield Griffiths

A mine of information and advice

Martin Ward

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

Margaret Paul

Linda Thomas - The NHS has plenty of faults but it has also come a long way as far as attitudes go

Linda Thomas

Readers Panel

Graham Houghton, Roger Cowell, Jane Scullion, Sue Szczepanska

Missing pieces

Phil Barker, Poppy Buchanan-Barker

What if it were your mother?

Marc Cornock

Paying the price

Kate Chapman

Armchair activist

Steven Pack

Starting out - Student cristina short learned that little things matter

Cristina Short

Fair care for all

Sue Jones

Standard life

Daniel Allen

In the dark

Christopher Humm

‘A freak accident’

Good counsel

Lynne Pearce

Basic instincts

Jean Faugier

A mixed picture

Sarah Harrison, Paul Dinsdale

Local anaesthetic better than regional for facial sutures

High fat intake implicated in symptoms of reflux

Intranasal Naloxone effective in patients who overdose

Simplifying drug therapy reduces asthma exacerbations

News in brief

At your service

Blair invite for TV nurse challenger

Guidelines in brief

NHS introduces training to calm violent patients

Sarah Harrison

Complementary therapies offer more personal care

Christian Duffin

Patients let down over abuse

Software profile for mental health

Mixed response to graduate placements

Policies fail to impress unions

Tories target ‘superbug’ as top election priority

Graham Scott

Scepticism at TB screening plans

On the move

News in brief

Nurse-led clinics cut heart deaths

Parents feel sense of grief for children with diabetes

Christian Duffin

Team trains its sights on drivers

Call for 24 hour cleaning in A&E

Directors of nursing behind in pay stakes

Pay rises put on hold as trusts battle with delays

Paul Dinsdale, Sarah Harrison

Nurses reject retirement age of 65

Sarah Harrison

Inspectors praise whistleblower

Campaign to halt unpaid overtime

Winning nurses’ votes

Jean Gray