First contact posts under threat

Pam Corlass

Be alert to patient safety

Annette Lankshear

Notice board

Freedom to learn

Lynne Roberts

Full-time commitment

Ellen McDaid

Oxygen therapy in patients’homes

Jo Sidebottom

Eczema

Tanya Fernandes

Assessing and treating adult patients with eczema

Sandra Lawton

Management of common fungal infections in primary care

Julius Parker

Raised intracranial pressure: nursing observations and interventions

Marco Tullio Suadoni

Rename hcas as nurses and we can be called managers

Claire Leathem

Accusation that nurses are desensitised is harmful

Chris Chaloner

Time to be proactive and adopt european measures

Lisa Dougherty

Enforce safety guidelines to prevent needlestick injuries

Rick Dean

Looking after nursing students is time well spent

Bev Goose

Tasty food alone will not solve nutrition problems

Brigid McKevith

Nutritional assistants are effective but have limitations

Natalie Handley, Jaime Squire

Patient nutrition is too important to be delegated to unpaid support staff

Christine Eberhardie, Sutton, Surrey

Promoting the Health of School Age Children

Clare Norman

Mental Health Across Cultures – A Practical Guide for Health Professionals

Martin Ward

Advanced Practice Nursing – An Integrative Approach: Fourth edition

John Albarran

Webwise

Laurence Dopson

Outsidein

David Newnham

Reflections

Stephen Weeks, Linda Drake, Bríd Hehir, Jane Scullion

Starting out - experience as a patient taught me to respond with compassion

Lydia Emerson

Flippant talk

Jane Bates

Keep the NHS secular

John Paley

Voices - Chris Beasley heralds exciting opportunities for community nurses

Dame Chris Beasley

Nurses’ hands are tied in addressing mixed-sex wards

Jane Brown

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

Margaret Paul

How are we doing?

Songs for learning

Jenny Knight

Space age spin-offs

Stephanie Northen

Ambulance triage system misses more than half of strokes

Mental health suffers in children exposed to parental violence

Alpha-blocker linked to adverse events in cataract surgery

Trial finds traditional remedy for back pain is ‘excellent’

Models for delivering primary care services under scrutiny

Nurses help lead the transformation in delivery of community care services

Teenagers create animated puppet film to promote importance of condom use

Booklet offers safe sex advice to adult film actors

‘encourage prostitutes to leave industry’

Smoking ban in psychiatric units ‘failing’

Government launches new set of competencies on end of life care

Sophie Blakemore

No prosecutions for staff at C.difficile outbreak hospital

Praise for revolutionary hospital gown made in HCA’s back room

Sophie Blakemore

Patient distress could affect nurses’ wellbeing

£2minvested in more bedside care

News in brief

RCN and doctors’ body unite to lobby for fair practice nurse pay

Mixed response to draft competencies

Slow uptake for government’s social enterprise plan, says poll

College hails community proposals

Fun, games and the open air

Registration fees could increase as regulator goes into the black

Tamsin Snow

HCA regulation would be costly and ineffective, ministers warned

Tamsin Snow

Glastonbury team offers care to the crowds

HCAs must be regulated

Graham Scott