Test for the best

Kevin Gray-Roberts

Notice board

A lighter side of life

Nicky Green

Managing sepsis

Charlotte James

Understanding the needs of women with postnatal depression

Karen Robertson

Assessment of older adults in the emergency department

Vicki Leah, John Adams

Recognition, assessment and management of anaphylaxis

Elizabeth Linton, David Watson

Obituary

Richard Bernhard

My confidence was boosted by pre-training experiences

Lesley Williams

Colleges focus on practical aspects of patient care

Anne Gallagher

Clear advice on assisted suicide debate is needed

Celia Manson

Older people need more light to regulate body clock

June Andrews

Any erosion of education would be a retrograde step

Karen Elcock, Ian Peate

Politicians continue to play football with the NHS

Cris Allen

This proposed NHS restructuring is the biggest botched job to date

Kelvin Karim

Webwise

Sue Jordan

Drugwatch

The Research Process in Nursing – Sixth edition

Nic Lee

The Past Recaptured – A Nurse in the Fifties and After

Laurence Dopson

Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology – Sixth edition

Ruth Sander

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Afirst-yearstudentmademerealisehowfarihavecome

Ellen McDaid

Age is no barrier on the road to becoming a nurse

Kelly Watson

Readers panel - wash day blues

Scott Justice, Lorraine Jeffs, Esther Tanton, Kate Tantam

Sweet talk

Jane Bates

Outside in

David Newnham

Seeing out their last days with dignity

Gay Lee

Voices - Highly skilled people must remain in the mix for safe care, says Rosemary Cook

Rosemary Cook

Missing a link

JO Carlowe

The clock

Jennifer Boore

Cases in the balance

Michael Traynor

A life on the ocean wave

Alison Handley

Carers of patients with lung cancer share distress

Long-term use of sun beds increases melanoma risk

Older people not at risk from vaccination against shingles

Breastfeeding mothers retain less pregnancy weight gain

Community nurses face a future where change is the only certainty

Members of naval nursing service remembered

Mid staffs public inquiry invites evidence from health regulators

Petra Kendall-Raynor

French speakers needed for haiti

Move to change organ law to presumed consent

Backing for nurses to verify death

News in brief

Rising number of students chasing fewer degree places

Regulator’s decisions about fitness to practise ‘must improve’

Newly qualified nurses advised to apply for assistant positions

Jennifer Sprinks

Opportunity knocks, says minister

NHS white paper: key points

Threat to workforce mobility

Mixed reaction to NHS restructuring

Nurses feel left out of plan togive GPs control of £80bn spending

Erin Dean

Practices ease access to care

Government plans put national pay and conditions in danger

Erin Dean

Left out of the loop

Elaine Cole