Me and my mentor

Nancy Fontaine

Dial for health care

David Newnham

Notice board

Nurse and therapist

Talking up the

Simon Houghton, Joe Curran

Understanding learning

Benny Goodman

Transient is chaemic attack

Nursing care and management of patients with pruritus

Ann Davies

Topical treatments for managing patients with eczema

Polly Buchanan, Molly Courtenay

The evidence for urethral meatal cleansing

Rachel Busuttil Leaver

Promoting safer blood transfusion practice in hospital

Elaine Parris, John Grant-Casey

Correction

The government’s fixation on choice is misguided

David Eldon

Foundation trusts are becoming more secretive

Margaret Herbert

Dancing is a cheap and healthy form of exercise

Zoe Bremer

MPs are right to attack huge cost of agency and bank staff

Margaret Clarke

Patient nutrition relies on the commitment of nurses

Elaine Horridge

I am still plagued by the memory of a violent patient

Kathy Furness

Healthcare workers need self-defence skills

Barbara Wyeth

Fight the liberalisation of drug advertising

Stephen Wright

Macmillan education cuts are a short-sighted move

Steve Weston

At last, ministers have listened: we cannot work late without childcare

Margaret Plumb

The Secret History of a Woman Patient - Discoveries of a Breast Cancer Survivor

Deborah Fenlon

New Genetics, New Identities

Cher Thornhill

Oxford Handbook of Nurse Prescribing

Gary Blatch

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta Thornbory

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - More of the same?

Brid Hehir, Chiccoe Moyo, Linda Drake, Dean-David Holyoake

Starting out - I gained personal experience of the impact of arthritis

Suzannah Hobley

Silly games

Jane Bates

Outside in - David Newnham tells his inner selves that yoga can cure aches and pains

David Newnham

The invisible parent

Maggie Fisher

Health visitors are needed now more than ever

Chris Beasley

Once upon a time…

Jane Salvage

‘Brilliant’ red tray scheme adopted throughout trust

Low-key yellow napkins highlight potential risk

Mealtime solutions

Carol Davis

Education is key

Breast cancer risk reduced in women of low birth weight

Misuse of cocaine and amphetamines related to stroke

H pylori implicated in development of gastric malignancy

Mental health care in Darwin in response to the Bali attacks

Nurses’ satisfaction with the agenda for change pay system

Keith Hurst

Building on autonomy, cash flow and financial stability

Tamsin Snow

Fairly clean is simply not clean enough for a hospital, says Edwina Currie

New commodes and mattresses lead to dramatic fall in infections

Colin Parish

Specialist nurses offered £20,000 to join military

Bush presses for release of imprisoned bulgarians

Put your best foot forward

News in brief

‘Triumph’ For nurses awarded honours in Queen’s birthday list‘

Guide to humanitarian working

Call for decisive action to combat continuing homophobia in NHS

Sue Learner

Unions divided as minister imposes pay award

Payroll fiasco leaves thousands out of pocket

Squeeze to 2010

Relaunch of NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework to boost trust co-operation

Public sector wages looks set to continue

Colin Parish

Welsh Assembly puts pressure on Brown to offer full 2.5 per cent

RCN backs prescribing plan

Health visiting review urges focus on where the need is greatest

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Build firmer foundations

Tim Madge