Managing pain in osteoarthritis

Felicia Cox

Nurse prescribing: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Deborah Young, Raymond Jenkins, Margaret Mabbett

Psychological help for pregnant women with sickle cell disease

Veronica Thomas, Heather Rawle, Jo Howard, Mina Abedian, Neill Westerdale, Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Luhanga Musumadi

Successful introduction of a community-based HIV service

Kathryn Kain

Health literacy and long-term conditions

Gillian Rowlands

Evaluation of a psychoeducational intervention for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease

Kathy Davis

Measuring quality of life in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease: psychometric and clinical characteristics

Successful implementation of a nurse-led teaching programme to independently administer subcutaneous methotrexate in the community setting to children with Crohn’s disease

Research focus

Uptake of breast screening is affected by wealth and cervical screening by ethnicity

Vari drennan

Statin use in people with risk factors can reduce risk of major cardiovascular events

Prescription and monitoring of methadone to heroin addicts in primary care

Increased resources will be needed to cope with the rise in children with type 1 diabetes

Vari Drennan

Noticeboard

Men’s health

Tina Bishop

British Lung Foundation

Diary

Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms

Ruth Taylor

Nursing and Working with Other People

Jane Scullion

Arterial Blood Gas Analysis: An Easy Learning Guide

Ben Bowers

Worrying about (the) bill

Bethann Siviter

Pandemic flu

Lynn Young

Putting ambition into community services

Christian Duffin

A systems-based approach to smoking cessation

Yvonne Wooding

Mother regrets taking wrong MMR vaccination decision

Financial boost for gypsy and traveller outreach services

Grants available to support delivery of innovative projects

Regulation planned to monitor safety of alternative therapies

Consultation favours harmonised mileage rates for NHS staff

Early swine flu vaccination to include community nurses

Sophie Blakemore

News in brief

The assisted suicide debate

Sue Thommas