Walk to freedom

Plan a good retirement

Teresa Bennett

Notice board

Plan a good retirement

Teresa Bennett

Plane truths

Joanne Hardy

Student life - Plane truths

Joanne Hardy

Sickle cell disorders

Florence Westfold

Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain

Elaine Cole, Antonia Lynch, Helen Cugnoni

Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain

Elaine Cole, Antonia Lynch, Helen Cugnoni

Early childhood pacifier use in relation to breastfeeding, SIDS, infection and dental malocclusion

Early childhood pacifier use in relation to breastfeeding, SIDS, infection and dental malocclusion

Joanna Briggs

Using the Liverpool Care Pathway for a dying patient

Mary P McNicholl, Kathleen Dunne, Angela Garvey, Rose Sharkey, Amanda Bradley

Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infection

Sue Wiseman

Some workers have to wear their uniform in public

Nickey Rooke

Will revalidation lead to another NMC fee increase?

Stephen Weeks

Nursing standard and harlequin mills and boon medical romance series competition winners

Can we believe management is doing its best for the NHS?

Philip Woodrow

Compromised level of care is putting me off midwifery

Elaine Brioney

Studying has good times and bad, but it is worthwhile

Nola Clements

Supernumerary status is essential for today’s student

David Rawcliffe

Respect for patients has grown in the past 20 years

Miriam Atkinson

Education must be available to ensure that staff practise safely

Rosemary Cook

Holistic guide to health and self-awareness

Bríd Hehir

Holistic Guide to Health and Self-Awareness

Bríd Hehir

Naja

Laurence Dopson

Poppy Shakespeare

Daniel Allen

Naja

Laurence Dopson

Poppy Shakespeare

Daniel Allen

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Green pigs could save us

David Haworth

Voices - A great muslim nurse set the standard for nightingale and seacole, writes Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu

Readers panel - Lessons to learn from PREP

Jane Brown, David Holyoake, Duncan Clarkson, Frances Wheatley

Webwise

Chris Eberhardie

Sword of comfort

Jane Bates

Bridge the gap

Anne Duffy

OutsideIn

David Newnham

‘I never saw it coming’

Sally James

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Starting out - Don’t overlook the importance of communication with patients

Carol Featherstone

‘I can’t trust anyone’

Jennifer Percival

Meet you at the door

Paul Dinsdale

Reel times in A&E

Carol Davis

Being cheerful protects older men from cardiac death

Young men at highest risk of sports-related injury

Regional adiposity is a risk factor for gallstones in women

Children’s perceptions of their mother’s breast cancer

Battling for respect in Pakistan

Ashfaq Yusufzai

A high price to pay

Colin Parish

Cameron claims personal interest in palliative care

Specialist nurses should not be target for job cuts

Sarah Harrison

Former chief blames NHS crisis on failure to cost policies properly

Colin Parish

Nursing research model ‘not fit for purpose’

Truckers break the waist barrier

Diversity agenda must widen to cover sexual orientation

Tamsin Snow

Dobson fears for health of NHS direct

News in brief

Mats spell out message of good hygiene

Patients want more ward staff, health watchdog survey finds

Second trust plans job downgrading

Television edge for mary seacole

Data confirms drop in places

Changing role is blamed for cuts to district nurse training courses

Sarah Harrison

Social enterprise staff want to keep NHS pension

Pioneering nurse entrepreneurs course loses government funding

Tamsin Snow

United against prejudice

Jean Gray