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Buying for results

Sheila Dilks

On course to a new career

Joanne Hardy

Blooming best

Rebecca Brew

Buying for results

Sheila Dilks

On course to a new career

Joanne Hardy

Bowelcare in spinal patients

Darryl Connolly

Promoting a healthy diet for older people in the community

Rebecca Neno

Promoting a healthy diet for older people in the community

Rebecca Neno, Marcus Neno

Dysphagia management for progressive neurological conditions

Nina Squires

Identifying discharge practice training needs

Liz Lees, Kelly Emmerson

Nurse prescribing in mental health

Austyn WA Snowden

Nurse prescribing in mental health

Austyn Wa

Obituary Don Bentley Theatre superintendent Died March 15 2006

Laurence Dopson

Overseas nurses devalued by new residency requirements

David James

A judgemental approach is an unacceptable way to care

Jenna Hilton

Basic skills are not just for healthcare assistants

Frances Tuck

Job cuts hang like a cloud over nursing students

Ian Ridley

No redundancies or offshore moves planned at NHS direct

Alison Rayner

Evidence-based practice article a valuable resource

Lei Foster

Forums’ role in high-quality care too important to lose

Susan Oliver

St George’s self-harm scheme fails to acknowledge the true pioneers

Louise Louise

Behavioural Change - An Evidence-based Handbook for Social and Public Health

Peter Hadwin

Behavioural Change – An Evidence-based Handbook for Social and Public Health

Peter Hadwin

Weight Matters for Children - A Complete Guide to Weight, Eating and Fitness

Clare Norman

Nurses on the Move - Migration and the Global Health Care Economy

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Weight matters for children – a complete guide to weight, eating and fitness

Clare Norman

Nurses on the move – migration and the global health care economy

Roswyn Hakesley-Brown

Standard life

Daniel Allen

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bob Price

Going cold turkey

Paul Cornforth

Consumed by an addiction

Alison Jenkins

David newnham enjoys giving cold callers a taste of their own medicine

David Newnham

VOICES - Kicking the food habit takes time and support, says Sharon Dennis

Sharon Dennis

Hospital trust

Jane Bates

Coming to the fag end

Paul Martin

How to hit the right notes

Sue Shaw

Starting out - Discussing a patient’s fear of falling could prove helpful

Elizabeth Piki

Readers panel

Mike Lehane, Scott Justice, Lorraine Jeffs

Blooming best

Rebecca Brew

Caring about the costs

David Newbold

The whole story

Catharine Sadler

H. pylori eradication in the community is feasible but costly

Clinical depression increases risk of cardiac arrest

Text messaging increases speed of infection treatment

Ethnicity is a factor in lung cancer risk for US smokers

Step change

Colin Parish

How the revised act will work

Guarded response to government admission of mental health defeat

Colin Parish

Soap and water given the brush-off for cleansing incontinent patients

Homophobia puts men off GP visits

A&E domestic violence posters miss targets

Long needles benefit babies, nurse researcher discovers

Undercover healthcare assistant highlights tension between roles

Sarah Harrison

No sign of endoscopist funding

Home office changes work permit rules

Expert warns about danger of ignoring ‘harmless’ dirt

Trusts falling behind with staff appraisals, NHS survey finds

Christian Duffin

Radio soap rubs out the bugs

Campaigners head to court over ward closures

Unions demand Hewitt meeting over ‘slash and burn’ job losses

Christian Duffin

Nursing guidance for head teachers

Lecturers continue pay protest

News in brief

Centralised workforce planning goes on ministers’ reform agenda

Colin Parish

Pay saga rolls on as announcement delayed again

Market forces gone wrong?

Jean Gray