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End the shame game
Any healthcare professional who works in the clinical field of abortion does so because they...
19 Aug 2015
Public health profiling prepares nursing students
Jo Brown and Guy Collins explain that simulated practice can prepare students to work in...
14 Aug 2015
Ban protestors from intimidating women entering abortion clinics
Julia Bradley, from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, says women are being distressed...
12 Aug 2015
Voices - Join forces to help stop female genital mutilation, says Jane Cummings
At this time of year, some young girls may be taken abroad to undergo female genital...
12 Aug 2015
Uneasy partnership
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a trade agreement currently being...
12 Aug 2015
The right to care
There was once an old man who lived with his wife in a house by a river. He had dementia,...
12 Aug 2015
Medicines management
Private healthcare companies invoice their clients for every medicine given. Although I am...
12 Aug 2015
Counting the cost of domestic abuse
RCN Nurse of the Year Amanda Burston on domestic violence's human and financial costs
07 Aug 2015
Voices - Discharge challenge can be met by pooling skills, says Crystal Oldman
The first principle of nursing care I learned as a student several decades ago was that...
05 Aug 2015
Hit or myth message
I take a sharp intake of breath when I hear on the news that ‘research has been done…’
05 Aug 2015
Sick of it all
Who do I see about reporting people to the health service? I need to speak to someone about...
05 Aug 2015
Is failure the fairest option?
A staff nurse says she has failed a nursing student she was mentoring because his...
05 Aug 2015
Don’t patronise me
Why do so many complex issues in the health service get boiled down to crusades that do...
29 Jul 2015
Short shelf life
The hob is crowded. A pan has been shoved to one side, leaving its handle over the gas. I...
29 Jul 2015
Workforce
When NHS England took over work on safe staffing guidance last month from the National...
29 Jul 2015