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The highway to knowledge

Marjorie Lloyd

Nurses experience bereavement too

Louise Stayt

A degree of experience

Karen Ousey, Peter Gallagher

Blood groups and transfusions

Kate Hardwicke

Learning how to undertake a systematic review: part 1

Josette Bettany-Saltikov

Assessment of anaemia in elective pre-operative orthopaedic patients

John Grant-Casey, Karen Madgwick

Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities

Anthony McGrath

New training standards may lead to ‘one nurse doing it all’

Ros Morley

Concerns over food industry anti-obesity campaign links

Jackie Schneider

NMC moves with the times in supporting welsh language

Alice Joyce

Pensions will be hit by switch to a lower index of inflation

Cris Allen

Sign our e-petition against the white paper proposals

Paul Evans

Data integration is key to avoiding paperwork headache

Alison Wallis

NPSA will leave a valuable legacy of information

Bethann Siviter

Politicians should know better when it comes to the issue of school milk

Jayne Evans

Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing

Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi

Drugs Handbook 2010

Sue Jordan

Persuasion in Clinical Practice – Helping People Make Changes

Stephen Weeks

Good advice

Jane Bates

Out side In

David Newnham

Empty promises

Obi Amadi

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Laurence Dopson

Now is the ideal season for unwrapping your patients

Jan Halstead

Readers panel-Body of

Mandy Allison, Janet Smith, Elsie Gayle, Bríd Hehir

Starting out-When first name terms bring about a loss of patient dignity

Karin Schirmaier

Voices

Dame Chris Beasley

Shopping bad service

Catharine Sadler

A calming influence

Catherine Cooper

No place like it

Alison Handley

Second-hand cigarette smoke exposure has an effect on mental health

High morale raises life expectancy among older population

Vaccination does not increase the chances of rheumatoid arthritis

Eating chocolate can lower blood pressure, and may reduce risk of cardiovascular illness

Questions, questions, questions: white paper paints an uncertain the NHS picture

Howard Catton

Commitment to help save lives is unshaken by medics’ deaths

Ombudsman demands action over prisoner health

U-turn over fitness to practise

Nurse stars in dementia documentary

Fast-tracked band 5+ staff now allowed on to specialist register

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Managers given guide to helping staff with learning differences

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Teenagers hop on a bus for health advice

News in brief

Nurses’ input needed to test NHS supplies

Training course used as recruitment drive for more HCAs

Aid operations continue in Pakistan flood regions

Specialists being lost to general duties as employers cut costs

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Healthcare mentoring role given to nurse-led social enterprise

Call to scrap A&E target in Scotland

Lady with the lamp remembered

Nurses reject pension plan that would keep them working to 65

Tamsin Snow

Campaign aims to curb abuse

Proving nurses’ worth

Graham Scott