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Practical support for Africa

Tuija Hirva

Just a minute

Honing inter professional links

Pauline Stuttard

Wound bed preparation

Scott Robinson

Applying numeracy skills in clinical practice: fluid balance

Carol Chapelhow, Sandra Crouch

Two levels of practice: meeting professional or workforce needs

Diane Cockayne, Grace Davis, Lynn Kenyon

Introducing contemporary shift patterns in a hospice setting

Kay Greene

Aggression and violence towards staff working with older patients

Barbara Mullan, Frances Badger

Our specialist association is an independent body

Stella Gay

Are you eligible to take part in genetic counsellors vote

Kathy Barnes

Red tabard system requires more than one trained nurse

Julie Wilson

Patients who have alcohol problems are not ‘drunks’

Maria O’Brien

The NMC ignores us so why should ministers listen?

Lorraine Leighton

Hospital travel costs scheme – make your voice heard

Steve Richards

More weight-loss surgery needs to be offered by the NHS

Christopher McDonnell

The public would support strike action by nurses

Ann Fleetwood

Throw out the dated image of mental health nursing

Marjorie Lloyd

All healthcare staff deserve better pay and conditions

Sue Szczepanska

Many doctors work hours of unpaid overtime

Rachel Carter

Professional rivalry is a threat to the future security of the health service

Lizzie Large

You can do it

Jennifer Percival

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

Margaret Paul

The Complexities of Care – Nursing Reconsidered

Jane Salvage

Emergency Care – A Textbook for Paramedics : Second edition

Tim Collins

Webwise

Elizabeth Anionwu

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

Clare Norman

The Complexities of Care - Nursing Reconsidered

Jane Salvage

Is it me?

Jane Bates

Outside In

David Newnham

Life and death

Stephen Wright

Trying to predict the unpredictable

Steven Pack

Voices

Rosemary Cook

Starting out - i felt guilty when i could not help a client hearing voices

Julie Cresswell

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel-A question of responsibility

Stephen Weeks, Moyra Baldwin, Christopher Humm, Marie John

The next generation

Elizabeth Lynch

Positive action

Carol Davis

Processed meat and dairy products linked to prostate cancer

Screening: the bigger picture

Laura Gibson

Regaining employment reduces distress only if finances improve

Treatment with SSRIs linked to fractures in people over 50

Para-phenylenediamine is an effective hair dye agent and a powerful contact allergen

NHS ‘will have 10 per cent fewer staff’

Are we breaking up the health service?

Tamsin Snow

Campaign to set up UN healthcare agency for women

College council to vote on wider HCA membership

Nurses cited as most prosecuted group of healthcare serial killers

Seconded HCAs offered old jobs back after qualifying as nurses

Colin Parish

Malone demands bush takes action on new orleans

RCN halts distance learning courses

Outrage as transferred staff face redundancy with reduced pay-off

Tamsin Snow

Call for ministers to stop trusts axing specialist diabetes posts

Support for BME nurses

Training entry requirements under review

Unions claim women lose out in AFC incremental points scheme

Tamsin Snow

Disappointment and anger at this year’s ‘smidgen of a pay award’

Feedback sought on latest unsocial hours payment scheme

News in brief

Inquiry into deaths ordered

Nurse who refused to carry out execution must fight to stay in UK

Petra Kendall-Raynor

A courageous stand

Jean Gray