High-tech progression

Bright new future

Sue Bernhauser, Matthew Hamilton

Notice board

Students life - better safe than sorry

Vincent Tremayne

Pulmonary embolism

Terri Carmichael

An overview of the menopause: assessment and management

Debra Holloway

Practice development in community nursing: opportunities and challenges

Keith King, Daniel Kelly

Safety: Principle of Nursing Practice C

Lynne Currie, Caroline Lecko, Rose Gallagher, Kim Sunley

Menopausal women after cancer have different needs

Kathy Abernethy

Managers’ duty to monitor delivery of health education

Amanda Norman

Cycling can be the quickest way to get to homes

Vincent Walsh

Review of gay donor policy should be robust and fair

Ian Peate

Glasgow nursing school must be saved from closure

Karen Friett, Anita Wallace

Patients cannot be treated in a conveyor belt fashion

Helen Evans

How can NHS productivity and value for money be measured accurately?

Bridget Ryan

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

Margaret Paul

Aspire

Ian Birkinshaw

Thank You for Life – Letters from Transplant Recipients to Donors’ Families

Susan Watkins

A Woman of Two Wars – The Life of Mary Borden

Sharon Palfrey

Guy’s Hospital Nurses’ League 1900-2010

Laurence Dopson

Webwise

Ian Birkinshaw

Starting out-I drew on previous knowledge to help a grieving relative

Claire Pitchford

Unions need support to resist unfair pension change

Gail Cartmail

Readers panel

Linda Drake, Jane Scullion, Sarah Esegbona Adeigbe, Elsie Gayle

Outside In

Newnham David

A world-wide view

Kath McCourt

Voices it is every nurse’s duty to read the ombudsman’s report, says chris beasley

Dame Chris Beasley

Keeping up

Surviving on self-heating dried food in old age

It is every nurse’s duty to read the ombudsman’s report

Cutting edge scheme

Alison Whyte

Back support

Mary-Claire Mason

Stroke of genius

The heart and soul of nursing

Low levels of hormone at menopause reduce breast cancer risk

Younger men more likely to die after a blow to the skull

Does the pay review body have a future?

Unfair wage deal could fuel tension between nursing staff and HCAs

Why the NHS should cut drug waste before cutting jobs

Call for boost to specialist endoscopy services

New guidance on testing as HIV cases nearly double in a decade

CQC inspectors start hospital ward checks

Staff told to take a break when working royal wedding day shift

Tamsin Snow

Research aims to standardise management of support workers

Regulator to pilot safer system of checking nurses’ credentials

Erin Dean

Team wins £50,000 for service scheme

Health inequality fear as cuts loom for sickle cell specialist posts

News in brief

RCN Wales welcomes palliative care boost

Consultation on bursary options launched

Change to pension calculations could increase payments further

Marchers express frustration and fears about service cuts

Atmosphere of camaraderie and pride as nurses unite in protest

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Nurses’ knowledge of basic care will be assessed by online tests

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Tamsin Snow

Report brands community care for children ‘fragmented’

Let the RB set nurses’ pay

Graham Scott