Offering an alternative

Donna Marsh

Notice board

Help with prescribing

Angela Bussey

Student life - Gainful employment

Vincent Tremayne

Crisis in specialist home care

Sidone Chilufya

Gainful employment

Vincent Tremayne

Anticoagulant therapy

Tracy Kitchener

Understanding cachexia in patients with cancer

Susan Holmes

Adopting a psychological approach to obesity

Joanna Yilmaz, Lauren Povey, Jane Dalgliesh

Chronic pain syndromes in cancer survivors

Suzanne Chapman

Lansley must ensure at-risk groups can get flu vaccines

Stephen Weeks

Opoku, Dora

Laurence Dopson

Correction

I feel powerless to stop a patient safety disaster

‘consultation’ on reform in England was pointless

Martin Rathfelder

Practice nurses work for years without pay rises

Carol Fisher

Effects of cutbacks on services are being ignored

Zeba Arif

Healthcare professionals face public backlash over NHS restructuring

Sabina Ahmed

Medication Safety – An Essential Guide

Irene Mabbott

Schizophrenia – The Positive Perspective: Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience – Second edition

Greta McGough

British Medical Association Complete Home Medical Guide – Third edition

Mike Jackson

Webwise

Roger Evans

Winter cheer

Jane Bates

OutsideIn - David Newnham believes that some secrets of the deep should stay there

David Newnham

Dedicated nursing career of heroic resistance fighter

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - I learned to use my senses when assessing patient wounds

Alexia Lad

Our profession is still an attractive option in tough times

Paul Snelling

Readers panel - Autopsy overload

Scott Justice, Paul Jebb, Jane Scullion, Kate Tantam

God and politics do belong together

Stephen Wright

Voices

Peter Carter

Happy to be of service

Sue Learner

In support of choice

Head for bed

Mary-Claire Mason

Every child is born to live

Kathryn Rawe

Adults who do not sleep well are more likely to become ill

Early exposure to mobile phones affects children’s behaviour

Recurrent miscarriage associated with higher risk of heart attack

Economic and quality of life benefits from integrated care

‘It is getting more difficult to make ends meet’

Upsurge in fuel costs leaves many nurses out of pocket

Cost-cutting demands prompt trusts to ‘explore all options’

Tamsin Snow

Charity says child deaths unnecessary

Hospitals face spot checks on older people’s care

Nurse devises pain indicator for children

Posters highlight the health risks of drinking

NHS director assures BME staffthey will not bear brunt of cuts

Erin Dean

Study highlights how stress affects military personnel

‘Nurses are the best placed staff to help patients who wish to die’

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

‘Toxic’ workplaces stop whistleblowing

Warnings sent to staff guilty of poor hygiene

Freedom and time for nurses to do what they do best

Anne Milton

Government deems NHS pensions too high for fair competition

Midwives express fears over GPs’ maternity commissioning skills

‘This will usher in a period of instability’

Nurses say reforms will sideline patients and fragment services

Tamsin Snow

Mixed-sex hospital fines dismissed as ‘crude’

Be vigilant or trusts will change employment terms, unions warn

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Tamsin Snow

A battle worth fighting

Graham Scott