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Temping top-up

Christian Duffin

It’s your move

Carol Davis

Questioning practices

Amanda Henderson

Face to face with success

Keith Bradley-Adams

Student life – Questioning practices

Amanda Henderson

Dementia care

Sophie Tonkins

Abdominal aortic aneurysms: clinical features, treatment and care

Philip Woodrow

Evaluating clinical competence assessment

Anne Fahy, Dympna Tuohy, Mary C McNamara, Mary Pat Butler, Irene Cassidy, Carmel Bradshaw

Reducing surgical site infection following caesarean section

Helen Gregson

Acland, Maureen

Maintaining standards is essential in health care

Andy Lovie

Riots highlight perils of cuts to police and health budgets

Helen Evans

Claims to be holistic should be treated with caution

Vincent Blyth

We need robust evidence of alternative therapy benefits

Austyn Snowden

Health and social care bill is designed to dismantle the NHS

Gay Lee, Jan Savage

NHS staff should feel privileged to have such a generous pension plan

Aldo Picek

Care home residents need regular medicines reviews

Bridget Ó Riain

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bríd Hehir

Debating Matters

Bríd Hehir

Living Longer, Living Better – Exploring the Heart-Mind Connection

Sabina Ahmed

Bedpans and Bobby Socks – Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime

Greta McGough

Evidence Informed Nursing with Older People

Ruth Sander

Maureen Acland 1934-2011 QNI vice-president and former chair

Maureen Acland

I felt powerless to help a patient who had fallen over

Helen Bibby

Starting out - I felt powerless to help a patient who had fallen over

Helen Bibby

Lack of managers could be damaging to the NHS, writes James Buchan

James Buchan

Readers panel - Sold to the highest bidder

Jane Brown, Moyra Baldwin, Sue Sczepanska, Stephanie Cumming

Counting the cost

Stephen Wright

Voices - Rosemary Cook fears safety could suffer after demise of national agency

Rosemary Cook

Steamed up

Our bowels are no longer the mystery they once were

Rosemary Cook fears safety could suffer after demise of national agency

Positives of testing

Mary-Claire Mason

A room of one’s own

Alison Moore

Change of mind

Ann Jaloba

Olive oil may reduce the risk of stroke in older adults

Comparison of hospital facilities for head-injured children

CMR scanning used to detect cardiac damage in cocaine misusers

Alcohol intake linked to level of dementia in older people

‘People at the end of their lives need talented, responsive care’

Judy Downey

Can the care home sector cope with growing future challenges?

Paternal instincts

Alison Handley

Top student highlights strain of studying

Nurses given prominent role in drive to reduce medicines waste

Christian Duffin

NHS Direct launches ongoing consultation with staff over changes

‘Prescribing charts must be the same’

CQC plans more inspections based on essential standards

News in brief

Student index start date to be delayed

Campaign aims to increase diversity of nursing workforce

Amanda devises plaster removal formula

Disparity among trusts over methods of uniform washing

Jennifer Sprinks

Chief nurse’s directorate nearly halved in past year

Auditors reveal £3.2bn of NHS budget cuts, but worse is to come

Tamsin Snow

Guidance targets sexuality of care home residents

New toolkit champions equal pay

Wellbeing programme boosts staff morale

Staff safety procedures under spotlight in aftermath of riots

College agrees to freeze membership fees for 2012

Give care homes a chance

Graham Scott