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Articles in Dec, 2008 issue of Community Practitioner

• Loud and clear: unite/CPHVA members and other NHS staff in Unite have stood together to reinforce the union's democratic mandate in calling for pay negotiations to be re-opened, giving it an even stronger hand
  by Karen Reay
• 'Work to rule' on 3 December: 'work to rule' planned after Unite members vote for industrial action over pay
• Change4Life to combat obesity
• Children at risk
• Health visitors to tackle inequalities
• Unite/CPHVA award winners
• SMS figures on NHS staff assaults
• GPs deliver petition
• 'I've got nothing to lose by trying it'
• Obesity drug suspended
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• Less caffeine during pregnancy
• Review of pregnancy and parenting services
• People's Award for Dignity
• QOF consultation
• Sudden cardiac death database
• QNI 10k fundraising run
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults
• Speech and language therapy services
• NHS LifeCheck
• Multiple sclerosis commissioning tool
• NHS on the web
• NI mothers read to children more
• Teaching and learning: Unite/CPHVA members have been pivotal in establishing and developing a community development and public health project in Mityana
  by Carolyn Taylor
• Overweight women find healthcare access and attitudes a struggle
  by June Thompson
• Viewing sexual content on TV linked to subsequent teen pregnancy
  by June Thompson
• Aggressive phototherapy can improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature babies
  by June Thompson
• Breast cancer treatment toxicity can be indicator of success
  by June Thompson
• Severe gestational hypertension may protect against testicular cancer
  by June Thompson
• UK heading toward 'silent epidemic' of alcohol-related dementia
  by June Thompson
• Beating eating disorders step by step: a self-help guide for recovery
  by Douglas Maisey
• Addressing problems at work
  by Barrie Brown
• Diary
• Free coaching
  by Nicky Brown
• MARAC: domestic abuse
  by Leonora Nutley
• School health profiles
  by Tony Pritchard
• 60 years of health visitor training at Southampton
  by Liz Porter
• Receiving your journal?
  by Danny Ratnaike
• Compulsory sex education
• 'Confusing' emergency services
• 'Real involvement' in the NHS
• NMC revalidation survey
• Flawed' consultation
• Targeted alcohol resource
• Other sides of the world: the Research Forum looks at the benefits of attending international conferences, highlighting next year's ICCHNR conference in Adelaide
• A key worker: providing support to parents through the Netmums website
  by Maura Hubbard
• Unions protest against privatisation
• Seeking refuge with HIV/AIDS: asylum-seekers have been branded as HIV 'health tourists' in some of the press, but what can practitioners do to support this vulnerable group of migrants to the UK?
  by Kin Ly
• The bullies: understanding bullies and bullying
  by Lynn Dracup