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Step up to success

Paul Vaughan

Step up to success

Paul Vaughan

Researching questions

Ian Birkinshaw

Researching questions

Ian Birkinshaw

Diabetes in south asian communities

Gillian Quinn

Prevention and control of infection in non-acute healthcare settings

Helen Jenkinson, Debbie Wright, Martin Jones, Esther Dias, Anna Pronyszyn, Kath Hughes, Karen Hawker, Linda Newsham, Tracey O’Donovan

Prevention and control of infection in non-acute healthcare settings

Helen Jenkinson, Debbie Wright, Martin Jones, Esther Dias, Anna Pronyszyn, Kath Hughes, Karen Hawker, Linda Newsham, Tracey O’Donovan

Addressing problematic behaviour in learners

The risk of infection from toys in the intensive care setting

Jacqueline Randle, Kathleen Fleming

Addressing problematic behaviour in learners

Bob Price

Under-reporting of violent incidents against nursing staff

Terry Ferns

The government must listen to nhs staff and patients

Stephen Weeks, Flockton Moor, West Yorkshire

Difficult choices ahead on funding of new treatments

Adele Hoare

Today’s politicians do not deserve trust or respect

Sian Williams

Ask not what unions do for you but what you do for them

Scott Justice

Much documentation is no more than a paper exercise

Carmel McLoughlin

Nurses and managers have the same problems and fears

Leanda Rankin

It is time to challenge the shortcomings of training

Arabella Penwarden

Specialist charity nursing posts are under threat

District nursing courses must adapt to meet changing needs of communities

Ami David, Mary Saunders, Janice Owen

Eating disorders and obesity: a comprehensive handbook – second edition

Chris Eberhardie

Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook - Second edition

Chris Eberhardie

Intermediate and continuing care – policy and practice

Megan Burgess

A clinical guide to inherited metabolic diseases – Third edition

Heather Skirton

Intermediate and Continuing Care - Policy and Practice

Megan Burgess

A Clinical Guide to Inherited Metabolic Diseases - Third edition

Heather Skirton

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bríd Hehir

Write to life

Chloe Copping

Saviours or scapegoats?

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

VOICES - The NHS is at the centre of he government’s vision to improve our wellbeing at work, says Linda Thomas

Linda Thomas

Outside in -A bad smell in David Newnham’s bathroom is not all it seems

David Newnham

Hidden hatreds

Stephen Wright

Teenage kicks

Jane Bates

Uncharitable acts

Stephen Collinson

I am Amanda, not ‘the cleft patient’

Amanda Bates

Standard life - A motoring route revelation reminds daniel allen why we should not get stuck in our ways

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Trust in me

Kate Chapman, Linda Drake, Chiccoe Moyo, Chris Mayer

Starting out - good communication takes account of patient’s abilities

Donna Kelly

Get with the program

Lynne Pearce

Hungry for help

Paul Dinsdale

Recurrent muscle strains common in slalom windsurfers

Teenagers skip meals to watch TV and play computer games

Delaying surgery for fracture of the hip increases mortality

Income generation from vaccination at GP surgeries

World cup fever

Christian Duffin

Pregnant pause for teenage mums

Tamsin Snow

Healthcare-associated infections and their effects

Dizzy spells eased by therapy

Bombings report says all hospitals must be alerted to major incidents

Christian Duffin

Sexual health experts welcome use of home testing kits for STIs

Tamsin Snow

Vaccine is top shot in London bars

Study points to need for better sex education

News in brief

Foundation trusts break away from Agenda for Change

Training budgets hit by cost cutting

Subsidised emergency childcare could reduce staff absenteeism

Midwives say shortage is ‘not over’

GP U-turn over surgery ratings scheme

Call for guidance on ‘right’staffing levels

Colin Parish

The NMC cannot regulate without power to adjudicate, warns president

English model ‘alien’ to czech midwives

Record backlog in staff misconduct cases condemned

Landmark ruling challenges ‘lazy’ gender stereotypes in nursing

Colin Parish

Crackdown on students failing first year

Former RCN chief stars in gallery exhibition

Delay in bursary announcement prompts fears of income freeze

Tamsin Snow

Foreword

Janice Stevens

Preface

Chris Beasley

Deterring students is unwise

Tim Madge