Volunteering: a career investment

Noticeboard

Meeting of minds

Suzanne Tongue

Thoroughly modern learning

Simone Bedford

Ready for enterprise

Ami David, Stephanie Stanwick

Make use of feedback

Benny Goodman

Prostate cancer

Irene Smith

Community profiling as part of a health needs assessment

Kirsten Jack, Maxine Holt

Administering eye medications

Sue Watkinson, Ramesh Seewoodhary

Effective dietary interventions for overweight and obese children

Obituary

Laurence Dopson

Welcome support for staff at an exhausting time of year

Sheila Home

There is nothing wrong with asking matron for a bedpan

Michael Grant

Patients need to know a nurse when they see one

Naomi Forsyth

HIV Services threatened by cutbacks and drug costs

Alan Tighe

Unwashed tourniquets are an infection control risk

Carly Hall

Am I missing something with Karen Reissmann’s dismissal?

Sarah Gilmour

‘Outspoken’ nurse sacking means patients lose out

Marsha Edwards

Do women really feel the cold more than men?

Christine Mount

Patients enjoy the company of dogs, but surely hamsters are a step too far

Nita Patel

Neglected Children and their Families – Second edition

Dee Harris

Pain

Peter Davis

In Stitches – The Highs and Lows of Life as an A&E Doctor

Pam Nelmes

Webwise

Bob Price

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

Margaret Paul

Bottoms up

Chloe Copping

Food obsession leads us inevitably to overindulgence

Anne Diamond

Starting out - Natural enthusiasm was taken as ‘over-confidence’ on ward

Andrea Harley

Standard life - ‘Untold misery’ – two words rarely churned out by the health secretary quote machine

Daniel Allen

Keep it to yourself

Steve Flatt, Bríd Hehir, Brendan McMahon, Sue Szczepanska

The sting

Jane Bates

Silver pyjamas are the perfect hospital accessory, says David Newnham

David Newnham

Haunted by the past

Stephen Wright

Encouragement and solidarity will help nurses to look after themselves

Rosemary Cook

Another injection?

Alison Moore

Mind your differentials

Tamsin Snow

Meningitis in infancy results in academic underachievement

Traffic emissions related to breast cancer risk

Atopic diseases linked to glioma but not to meningioma

Using wireless technology to support a range of processes

‘Nurses may not like using business language, but it is part of the NHS’

New award for patients’ top nurse

Four times as many students now have debts in excess of £10,000

Tamsin Snow

Honours list pays tribute to skill and endeavour

News in brief

Needle-free pain relief will boost post-operative recovery times

Sue Learner

Ewe have been warned

Vomiting bug alert for staff

RCN adviser posts under threat

Prime minister’s comments lead to confusion over next pay round

Tamsin Snow

Praise for staff forced out of burning hospital

Fears that new nurse shortage will force overseas recruitment

Laura Doherty

Thanks are not enough

Jean Gray