Travelling should not cost the earth

Teri Harman

Notice board

Home truths

Sally Gillen

‘Nurses lead at every level here’

Alison Leary

Keep on course

Maria Fernandez

Menopause

Luke Jackson

Pulmonary tuberculosis: clinical features and patient management

Andrea Gough, Gerri Kaufman

Wound care for injecting drug users: part 2

Gail Powell

One-page patient passport for people with learning disabilities

Darren Brodrick, David Lewis, Andy Worth, April Marland

Ann Young

Tom Rowland

Young, Ann

Tom Rowland

Letter

Elizabeth Hill

New end of life care pathway will surely benefit everyone

Greta McGough

Remembering a wonderful matron and friend to many

Sandra Brittain

Worcester royal infirmary nurses to be commemorated

Elizabeth Hill

Letter

Tricia Hamilton

NHS Direct will make savings without affecting services

Tricia Hamilton

Three cycles of single embryo IVF are economically viable

Bill Ledger

Saline solution deaths will tarnish nurses’ reputation

Daniel Brown

School nurses are being forgotten in the rush to recruit health visitors

Amanda Norman

Kissing It Better

First Steps Through Bereavement

Phil Russell

The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures: Student edition – Eighth edition

Elizabeth Haidar

Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain Now: A Powerful, User-Friendly Program for Anyone Searching for Immediate Pain Relief – Second edition

Brigid Breckman

For the good of the patients-Should nurses support hospital closures? We asked our readers panel

Paul Jebb, Jane Scullion, Sarah Esegbona-Adeigbe, Alison Crumbie

Law change on smoking in cars would protect children

Lynne Wallis

Outside in

David Newnham

Position of trust

Baroness Cumberlege

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Disengagement can be a way of maintaining professionalism

Shona MacLean

Disengaging can be a way of maintaining professionalism

Shona MacLean

Voices

Tony Hazell

Demon Doris

Using food-based remedies now leads to pain in the wallet

The nursing regulator is inviting registrants to set its agenda

Webwise

Greta McGough

It makes scents

Ann Jaloba

An indispensible role

Catharine Sadler

Puppy power

Jenny Knight

Paying attention

Caroline Swinburne

People who sleep a lot or a little are at risk of heart disease

Blood pressure unaffected by level of coffee consumption

Incentives to improve health are unpopular with the public

Night operations had no worse survival outcomes than those performed in the day

‘We will be burnt out in three years’

Campaign shows that savings are possible without cutting jobs

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Leading figures spearhead recruitment initiative

Minister claims to have heard no dissent over control of budgets

Nurse calls for famine fund donors

Pressure ulcer tool brings incidence to zero

Trust to end incentive payments for forensic mental health staff

Petra Kendall-Raynor

New alliance will tackle barriers to dignified care of older people

Tamsin Snow

Nurses take tea at the palace

Pack gives details of dementia services

Managers put on alert across the NHS over bogus advertising bills

News in brief

Nurses reduce catheter use

Increase in non-NHS providers will drive down pay, warns college

Erin Dean

High-profile cases cause NMC backlog

Trust faces grievance as unions battle pay penalty for sickness

Separate talks agreed for NHS pension scheme

Re-registration process ‘is unfit for purpose’

Counselling for nurses shocked and appalled by hospital deaths

A fair deal in retirement

Graham Scott