Onwards and upwards

Nicola Davies

A deeper insight

Jenny Knight

Lessons to be learned

Richard Staines

Insuring the future

Varicose veins

Jennifer Sparey

Safe practice for patients receiving anticoagulant therapy

Annette Lankshear, Jonathan Simms, Jane Harden

Implementing simulated practice learning for nursing students

Nikki Brooks, Abigail Moriarty, Nikki Welyczko

Role of the nurse-to-nurse handover in patient care

Sles Scovell

Freda Holland

Sam Gournay

I would be forced to stop my studies if bursaries were cut

Sarah Venn

Change to student bursaries preferable to other options

Catherine Deakin

Response to observations on severe ulcerative colitis

Mark Sephton

Older people should have the care homes they deserve

Patricia Beeden

Our training and experience are being squandered

Julie Hatton

Miss nightingale’s lamp needs to be lit in Africa

Sue Campbell

Society has changed and we need to look forward rather than back

Michael Fowell

Mental Health Nursing – First UK edition

Peter Martin

A Dyslexic Writes: An Essay on Dyslexia – A Conundrum of Conundrums

Peter Savage

Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology – 23rd edition

Simon McGurk

Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology – 23rd edition

Simon McGurk

Webwise

Nicola Evans

Notice board

Starting out - I carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a prisoner

Suzanne King

Readers panel putting forward a sound case

Paul Jebb, Sue Szcepanska, Kate Tantam, Julie Clarke

Snow joke

Jane Bates

Outside In

David Newnham

Unfair treatment

Janet Smith

Voices

Tony Hazell

Time to take the lead

Adele Waters

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

Not enough said

Mary-Claire Mason

Specialists face up to more cuts

Alison Handley

Click for baby clinic

Jenny Knight

Lower risk of gastric cancer in fruit and vegetable consumers

Outcomes improve by taking chest X-rays on demand in ITUs

Neonates with HSV infection increase hospital costs

Self-perceived stress is a trigger for ischaemic stroke

Benchmark for ward managers’pay would recognise the role’s demands

Adele Waters

DH plans nurse-led after care assessments for cancer survivors

Tamsin Snow

Hospital picks fair trade cotton uniforms for staff

Study shows high levels of smoking

Trust rails at allegations of ineffective patient feeding

Concern over lack of response to assisted suicide consultation

News in brief

Child health record book hailed as a useful tool

RCN to investigate whether trusts can be more like John Lewis

‘We can learn from the beacons of good practice in Afghanistan’

Ross Lydall

Global response from nurses to help Haitian earthquake victims

Erin Dean, Tamsin Snow

Examine health impact of shifts, commission told

Audit finds dementia cash missing

More colour on menu for young patients

RCN launches care home survey

Ward leaders to be given up to £2,000 for re-decoration

Ward sisters in Northern Ireland could be given up to £2000 to redecorate

NHS job guarantees – at a price

NMC commissions research on healthcare assistant regulation

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Haiti needs our support

Graham Scott