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Hello and welcome

Colleen Wedderburn

Just a minute

Connecting with children

Claire Westwood

See the client not the addiction

Kerry Stott

Assessment of learning

Natalie Harland

Promoting safe administration of subcutaneous infusions

Marion Khan, Gillian Younger

Injectable medication therapy: a patient safety challenge

Linda Matthew

Erectile dysfunction: meeting the needs of men with learning disabilities

Neville Parkes, Sue Keoghan

No cancer danger for litvinenko nurses

Roger Gross

NHS it programme is ‘two months ahead of schedule’

Barbara Stuttle

Nurse launches website for bereaved relatives

Maggie Candy

Will the new workforce director fight our corner?

David Harding-Price

If you are not registered you are no longer a nurse

David Dyson

Cut pay of nurses who are on supervised practice

Simon Gangel

Labour will lose my vote after staging our pay

Duncan Pemberton

Stop blaming other public sector workers for our pay

Katherine George

College has not ignored importance of spirituality

Jason Warriner

Act of worship was an opportunity for reflection

Dame Betty Kershaw

History tells us that hospitals can’t do without clinical nurse leaders

Gary Jones

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

John Thain

Person-centred Dementia Care - Making Services Better

Gary Blatch

Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing

Peter Gilbert

Health Communication - Theory and Practice

Dame Betty Kershaw

My workplace your home

Mike Lehane

Outside in

David Newnham

Night moves

Gerry Bolger

Softly, softly

Jane Bates

Starting out - Anon-accidentalinjurythrew lightonpostnatal depression

Nicola Mountjoy

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Too much, too young

Lorraine Jeffs, Mike Lehane, Scott Justice, Carol Singleton

Power to the profession

Time to change

Roll back malaria

Lynne Pearce

Homeward bound

Carol Davis

Gypsy and traveller groups have worse health than others

Lunchtime napping reduces the risk of coronary death

Tamoxifen helps prevent breast cancer in the long term

An E coli outbreak in the us linked to prewashed spinach

In the right direction?

Parish Colin

Trusts must plan for catastrophe

Staged pay rise looks set to dominate rcn congress

Colin Parish

More footballers back hardship fund

NHS business plan will up the pressure on staff productivity

Christian Duffin

Clocking in goes high-tech at trust

Tories attack labour for failing to boost school nurse numbers

News in brief

Government’s money grab is starting to mount up

Hospital targets hand hygiene in bid to defeat deadly bacterium

Petra Kendall-raynor, Colin Parish

Volunteers sought to keep patients well fed

‘20,000 midwives needed’to meet birthing pledge

Nurses lose automatic committee places

Part-time workers fight for right to buy back pension benefits

Therapists aware of boundaries crossed

Sexual behaviour code will ban relationships with ex-patients

Colin Parish

Setting the boundaries

Jean Gray