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Articles in Oct, 2008 issue of Community Practitioner

• More nurses needed for HPV scheme: concerns remain over a lack of nurses and increased workloads in implementing the HPV vaccination programme, despite extra funding
• Action for pay
• NMC Council meeting
• Cuts leave children vulnerable
• Innovations in school nursing: Northern Ireland school nursing conference
  by Rosalind Godson
• Maternal expectations: do they match experience?
  by Eleanor Young
• Parents' difficulties with decisions about childhood immunization
  by Helen Austin
• Alexander technique offers relief for back pain
  by June Thompson
• Millions face undiagnosed heart risk
• Health without a home: through user involvement, the QNI Homeless Health Initiative has identified key ways in which health care for homeless people needs to be improved
  by Kate Tansley
• Militating for good health care: with concerns over whether the government's new service command paper will improve health care for the military and their families, a member of an army family and a military-based school nurse share their experiences
  by Kin Ly
• Life expectancy in UK has decreased
• Community nursing CD
• Social care and public health research
• Improving services for allergy suffers
• Get your tickets for conference
• Know Your Limits on the web
• Change4Life
• European food safety
• Touch, look, check
• Child care worse in deprived areas
• Cholesterol tests for children
• Public transport rate victory
• School meal standards
• NMC nursing education
• SIG for named nurses and child protection advisors
• The QNI Queen's Nurse title goes to …
• Carol Young: 'Queen of the South'
• Ready for action: at meetings up and down the country, members have been expressing willingness to take industrial action over fair pay
• Members set the agenda: updating Unite/CPHVA's professional agenda
  by Angela Roberts
• Distance learning: the future of continuing professional development
  by Julie Southernwood
• Greater risk of eczema if cow's milk introduced late in infant diets
• Some Ayurvedic medicines sold online contain heavy metals
  by June Thompson
• Poor teen sleep habits may raise blood pressure
  by June Thompson
• Promotion of children's mental health should be a priority
  by June Thompson
• Agent Ecosse
• Tonsillitis: this month, in the picture considers the diagnosis and treament of tonsillitis
  by Mike Wyndham
• Diary
• Noticeboard
• The right mix? A key debate on skill mix is due to be take place at the annual professional conference in Harrogate on 20 to 22 November
  by Alison Norman
• Plans to improve palliative care
• Welsh 'family nurse' consultation
• Community staff nurse competencies
• Tribunal win
• More NCT places
• QNI Fund for Innovation
• CKD online resouce pack
• Eczema and prescribing: two local branch board members report on developing and running a study day on prescribing and the management of childhood eczema
  by Jill Davies
• Young children's fever reduced for longer by giving ibuprofen first
• Infections linked to premature births more common than thought
  by June Thompson
• NHS pay: bodies of evidence
  by Sian Errington