British journal of community nursing
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Food is one of the most basic human needs for healthy wellbeing and survival, yet too many hospitals fail to give nutritional care enough priority in their day-to-day practice. So, why isn't more being done to stamp out this problem once and for all? Three years on from the launch of Age Concern and Help the Aged's Hungry to be Heard campaign to raise awareness of this issue, we're still hearing shocking stories from relatives about older people still not getting the right food and support they need to eat in hospital.
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Calls for a change in the law to allow strictly controlled forms of assisted dying in the UK continue following a recent attempt to change the law and an announcement by the Royal College of Nursing that it was shifting its position on the issue from opposition to a neutral stance. In this article Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah review the current stance of the law on assisted dying and discuss laws that allow assisted dying in Australia, Europe and the USA.
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Scotland is in the midst of a major review of community nursing which began in 2006. The Scottish Executive, as part of the modernisation of the National Health Service, began a radical and far reaching review of nursing in the community. What transpires in Scotland over the next few years has the potential to contribute to the global debate about how community nursing may be developed to meet the needs of people and communities.