Postgraduate certificate for medical writers

A flexible career option

Tracy-Anne Day

Skills gap set to widen

Sarah Wray

Notice board

Holistic care in practice

Claire Windle

HIV and AIDS

Stephen Minto

Using Google Scholar to conduct a literature search

Paula Younger

Tissue viability in mental health

Anita Kilroy-Findley

Issues affecting concordance with leg ulcer care and quality of life

Anne Margaret Williams

Track and trigger system for use in community hospitals

Joanne Wolfenden, Ailsa Dunn, Alison Holmes, Cathy Davies, John Buchan

St george’s nurses league pays tribute to professor

Heather Bond

Serious nurses have a pledge engraved on their hearts

Elissa Miller

Student sets an example on good communication skills

Liz Cort

Dementia patients benefit from advanced care plans

Min Stacpoole

It is vital to identify the underlying causes of bullying

Helen Goddard

Coroners could provide a voice for bereaved parents

Heather Harrison

Janice’s achievements inspire us all to make a difference

Juliette Cosgrove

Findings on direct care are a timely wake-up call

James P Smith

Our students learn a range of skills before placements

Tim Badger

It is time to introduce a common protocol for clinical placements

Reynagh Jarrett

Legal Aspects of Consent – Second edition

Suzan Smallman

Infections and Their Control – A Historical Perspective

Carol Pellowe

An Introduction to Mental Health Nursing

Kevin Gournay

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Simon Palfreyman

Starting out - Intensive care stint showed me the strength of relatives’ hope

Emma Jones

Media reaches fever pitch over Cheryl’s sickness

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - A fine solution

Linda Drake, Jane Scullion, Paul Jebb, Lorraine Jeffs

Watch out!

Jane Bates

Outsidein-sun, sightseeing and for a holiday in hell

David Newnham

Confused guidance

Stephen Wright

Voices - Jean Gray is inspired by the incurable optimists behind a new campaign

Jean Gray

Living life with lupus

Mary-Claire Mason

Fear of falling

Mary-Claire Mason

Community care in a hospital setting

Victoria Owen

Queen of the screen

Hazel Davis

Mediterranean diet may protect children from asthma

Active women are less likely to develop endometrial cancer

Sickle cell anaemia is associated with poor intelligence quotient

Alcohol and knives linked to deaths of young men

Who does what on wards debate rages as hands-on time dwindles

RCN prepares response to GPs’ community role consultation

MPs will strive to protect quality despite squeeze on NHS funding

Concern over guidance on assisted dying

Lack of training leaves babies at risk

Proposal for employers to share sensitive staff records is ‘unfair’

Jennifer Sprinks

Trust’s case manager role helps enable patients’ timely discharge

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Contracts specify time spent on bedside care

News in brief

College aims to pool expertise on VTE

Institute urges nurses to improve take-up of clinical guidelines

Reviews scrapped by watchdog

Health risk alert as temperatures soar

Pressure mounts on pay packets and employment across Europe

‘Feeling blue’ posters cause concern

Employers in redundancy talks as nurse jobless total hits 1,000

Erin Dean, Jennifer Sprinks

Singing nurse icon’s praises

Anxious future for community staff as PCTs face the chop

Erin Dean

Liberating the NHS?

Graham Scott