Notice board

Learning to say no

Mandy Bruce

Battle stations

Student Life - Blowing the whistle

Benny Goodman

Insulin therapy

Noreen Macfarlane

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: diagnosis and management

Mark Tomlinson

Fitting a contraceptive intrauterine device or system

Ann Burke

Our findings support the health benefits of singing

Ann Skingley

Blood service is adapting to changing circumstances

Stuart Penny

Studies distort evidence on tobacco smoke ventilation

Andrew Geens

Instalment scheme for NMC fees would ease the burden

Christine Jackson

Paperwork may be interfering with proper meal regimens

Rebecca Tumbo

Wristband best practice is not standard across NHS

Helen Glenister

Take a leaf out of doctors’ book in the annual pay round we all knew trusts would cut senior

Malcolm Harrison

Going the extra mile for a student can reap rewards

Elaine Ward

Political questions at job interview revealed a skewed sense of priorities

Pat Hayhurst

Heckling at congress only showed a lack of respect

Scott Justice

Webwise

Marc Cornock

Care of the Suicidal Person

Peter Barraclough

Primary Care Ethics

Chris Chaloner

Primary care ethics

Chris Chaloner

Researching Health - Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

Clare Bennett

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

Margaret Paul

Is the best over?

Christine Jackson

Obesity is an election issue

Anne Diamond

Starting out - Talking about his family life calms a patient with dementia

Jackie Franks

Standard life - Daniel Allen is worried about the effects of chaos theory on nurse educators

Daniel Allen

Modesty

Jane Bates

Voices - New health secretary’s statement gives us high hopes for the future

Outsidein

David Newnham

‘Welcome stranger’

Stephen Wright

Lifting the spirit

Carol Davis

Spearheading improvement

Lynne Pearce

Heeling and gliding cause high numbers of orthopaedic injuries

Nurse-led itch clinic helps people with chronic skin pruritis

Rapid assay reduces transmission of MRSA in a critical setting

Health care for London: a framework for action

RCN council elections: Scotland

Pay review body’s remit extended to cover plumbers and bricklayers

Tamsin Snow

Involving key staff vital to productivity

Plea to fix midwife crisis

‘Harebrained’ to move people out of nursing homes, says Ursell

Too white and too male – president attacks makeup of RCN council

Big brother hand scanner trials get mixed reaction from nurses

Christian Duffin

NHS 24 set to employ nurses in adviser role

New guidance on violent patients

Call for better training in child cancer for health visitors

News in brief

Scotland’s band five

Laura Doherty

Mental health staff ‘are not listening to patients’

Christians offer new nurse course

Practice workload increases

NMC in dark over fees plan

Improved offer still leaves nurses in England worse off this year

Sarah Harrison

Shockwaves felt around the UK

Registration fee allowance brings hope of pay deal breakthrough

Tamsin Snow

Our children deserve better

Jean Gray