Volume 33 Number 1 ◆ 11 January 2024–24 January 2024

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT INSIDE

S1 NATIONAL HIV NURSING JOURNAL

Between pages 48 and 49

FOCUS

8 GASTROENTEROLOGY

Quality of life among older patients receiving faecal microbiota transplant for Clostridioides difficile infection Frederik Hyllested Birn et al

PROFESSIONAL

16 DIABETES

Call to action on diabetes care: reaching communities facing health inequalities, health inequities and deprivation Anne Phillips

22 EDUCATION

Evaluating the NMC proficiencies framework: perspectives of students and educators 5 years on Viki Whaley et al

28 CRITICAL CARE

Family-witnessed resuscitation in the emergency depar tment in a low-income countr y Patricia Banda et al

34 PRACTICE LEARNING

Competency versus proficiency: tr ying to develop an understanding of these terms in the context of practice learning Debbie Rober ts and Carol Forde-Johnston

REGULARS

5 EDITORIAL

Working in par tnership Ian Peate

6 COMMENT

Equity in health care Barr y Hill

40 PATIENT SAFETY

Back to patient safety basics: improving communication with patients John Tingle

42 LEGAL

Applying the appropriate treatment test in the Mental Health Act 1983 Richard Griffith

44 BJN AWARDS

Championing nurse-led ser vices for cardiology patients Alison Pottle

46 BJN AWARDS

Raising awareness of acute kidney injur y and improving patient care Nicola Geraghty

48 BJN AWARDS

Improving care for head-and-neck and thyroid cancer patients Catherine English

49 FOSTER’S PHILOSOPHY

Why we all need to speak up Sam Foster

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