Breast is still the best for babies

Out of necessity, human mothers have been known to breastfeed other animals such as piglets (Simoons and Baldwin, 1982), and before the invention of rubber-teated glass bottles it was not uncommon for...

An end-of-year report card for the Care Quality Commission

In 2018/2019 the CQC carried out more than 17 000 inspections across all sectors. These inspections included first inspections, re-inspections and focused inspections. There were 3903 inspections of...

Unlicensed medicines

The EU recognises that some patients' clinical need for medicines cannot be met by the current range of licensed medicines, or that it is simply not commercially viable for a pharmaceutical company to...

Can breaching patient confidentiality ever be justified?

Richard Griffith's Legal column on electronic health records and maintaining patient confidentiality was thoroughly informative (Griffith, 2019)..

Mindfulness training: a medical student perspective

We read with great interest the article by Noble et al (2019) regarding mindfulness training for nursing and medical students. As final year medical students at Imperial College London, we have...

Make the most of the AHP workforce

‘My view is that it is just not possible for everyone to know the range of skills these wider professions can offer across the health, care and wider system and the impact they can make. But every...

Understanding a sentinel lymph node biopsy service for patients with malignant melanoma

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has been accepted by many as the gold standard in the management of patients with intermediate prognosis cutaneous melanoma in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and...

Multicentre review of readmission rates within 30 days of discharge following lung cancer surgery

The aims of the multicentre review were to identify:.

Nursing considerations for supporting cancer patients with metastatic spinal cord compression: a literature review

The search used key words precisely focused to understand the impact and management of MSCC (Box 1). Contextually synonymous key words were included to extend the breadth of available literature....

Holding it together: the art of collaboration

‘We have a responsibility, as both nurses and global citizens, to improve cancer care for all patients, not just those within our direct sphere of inf luence’ .

Ambulatory approach to cancer care. Part 3: starting and maintaining the service and its challenges and benefits

For staff interested in introducing an AC service, a pilot can take place on an inpatient or outpatient ward by converting a four-bed inpatient bay to one with approximately four chairs and a bed, or...

Bullying: our dirty little secret