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Perfect cocktail

Diana De

Raring to go

Gill Robertson

Spinal cord injuries

Anthony Beynon

Domestic violence: responding to the needs of patients

Kylee Trevillion, Roxane Agnew-Davies, Louise Michele Howard

Reasons for non-attendance at cervical screening

Maggie Cooper

Personal health budgets and the role of nursing

Vidhya Alakeson, David Coyle

Will midwifery benefit from working with GP consortia?

Sam Chenery-Morris

It is not part of my nursing duties to take someone’s life

LY Cummings

Patient choice at the heart of the assisted dying debate

Jenny Janes

Staff training needs to be responsive to learner needs

Brian Burke

If you must break up tablets, do so with a splitting device

Ann Field

Change for change’s sake has been a waste of money

Gary Jones

The voluntary sector will be hit hard by restructuring

Marion Birch

Speak out consistently and loudly when standards slip

None of us should be innocent bystanders to undignified care

Ann Gallagher

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

Margaret Paul

Interactive Autism Network

Clare Norman

Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society

Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi

In the Midst of Life

Sharon Palfrey

Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare Practice

Peter Gilbert

Webwise

Clare Norman

Starting out - staff’s teamwork made home a beacon for end of life care

Ami White

Readers Panel - A big lesson for the future

Jessica Streeting, Julie Clarke, Mandy Allison, Alison Crumbie

Outsidein

David Newnham

Round again

Jane Bates

Read the report, talk about it - then take action

Judith Allen

A united front

Dame Liz Fradd

VOICES-We need a commitment to improving support for older vulnerable people

Rosemary Cook

Offer a guiding hand

Nicola Davies

Raising the standards

Charlie Callanan

Smarter solutions

Robert Munro

Building the future

Karen Combe

A role under scrutiny

Fish consumption could help prevent skin cancers

Increasing numbers of children infected with clostridium difficile

Flavonol in orange juice contributes to a healthy heart

Diabetes with depression increases risk of death

Charities make case for funds

Posts remaining unfilled despite assurances about budget cuts

Leaders call for action after one year of commission stalemate

Tamsin Snow

Blood pressure guidance advocates home monitoring

Many nurses feared dead in NZ quake

NHS Direct to bid for new non-emergency hotline

Incapacity benefit reviews ‘grossly unfair’

News in brief

Older people’s care will top agenda at senior nurse meeting

Relatives’ survey will help trusts to assess their end of life care

Tamsin Snow

Second graduation for proud rachael

Repealing the ‘fair deal’ pension rule could cause a nurse exodus

Unions lose royal wedding pay battle

Shortlist announced for patient’s choice award

Trust faces employment tribunal over linking pay rises to sickness

Petra Kendall-Raynor

College launches online induction for HCAs

Sign language lessons for midwives

RCN launches pre-budget letter campaign against front line cuts

Erin Dean, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Pensions under threat

Elaine Cole

Pensions under threat

Elaine Cole