Finding the feel-good factor

Jenny Knight

Hard sell on survival

Anjoti Harrington

Top care down under

Cathy Andrews

A sense of structure

Grethe Haugan

Student life - a sense of structure

Grethe Haugan

Nutrition

Joanne Tonkin

Care of patients following liver transplantation

Danielle Fullwood, Fiona Jones, Margaret Lau-Walker

Caring for a patient newly diagnosed with COPD: a reflective account

Siobhan Kennedy

Supporting the lecturer to deliver high-fidelity simulation

Iwan Dowie, Cheryl Phillips

Staff should be trained in appropriate task delegation

Tanis Hand

Resources are needed for training in South Sudan

Pauline Carr

Student registration on NMC database is fair and sensible

Tianna Jarrett-Williams

Examples of aromatherapy success will inspire its use

Angela Avis

We should all make our end of life care wishes clear

Carol Singleton

Looking to the past will help with future challenges

Peter Maleczek

Collapse of it programme will add to fragmentation

Paula Hill

Nurses must not feel obliged to help in an emergency

Mark Pittman

You can learn a lot from clinical articles – and watching television

Ann Holland

Got A Teenager

Greta McGough

The Risks of Prescription Drugs

Roger Evans

Gabriel’s Angel

Paul Sayer

The Making of Modern Medicine – Turning Points in the Treatment of Disease

Zulfkar Hussain

Lost cause

At last David Newnham has the chance to discuss snoring

It is good news that health journalism is striving to improve

Patient’s reaction showed the power of quiet companionship

Joanne Airey

Starting-out Patient’s reaction showed the power of quiet companionship

Joanne Airey

Don’t expect sympathy unless your needs are stark

Readers panel-The fast track to fairness

Bríd Hehir, Linda Drake, Paul Jebb, Elsie Gayle

Outside in

David Newnham

The killer question

Stephen Wright

Voices - It is good news that health journalism is striving to improve, writes Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Notice board

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Greta McGough

Data on tap

Nicola Thomas

Nursing routes into surgery

Space-age operations

Alison Moore

Notes from an outsider

Sue Learner

Healing the sole

Ann Jaloba

Drink and drugs can heighten chances of unprotected sex

Cigars carry same dangers as cigarettes for pancreatic cancer

Limiting number of antibiotics could reduce c.difficile

Exercise can help guard against early cancer deaths

Are care complaints and worker satisfaction linked?

Keith Hurst

The case for healthcare assistant regulation becomes overpowering

The pressure for change picks up pace

NHS managers told to tackle sickness rates with ‘urgency’

Jennifer Sprinks

Working group set to establish appropriate staff numbers

NMC suspends Leighton from the register

Deal helps nurses on to the property ladder

Billions wasted in IT fiasco could have funded pay rises

Midwife loses fight to wear dress in theatre

Soaring applications for degrees as interest in profession peaks

Erin Dean

News in brief

NHS Employers backs Mary Seacole appeal

RCN set to present draft guidance on assisted suicide

RCN still fighting for 18 assurances on health bill

Nurses criticise ‘reckless’ cuts to depression care

Mental health services face bleak future

Judgement on unfair weekend pay claim

CHRE calls for ‘humane working environment’ not HCA regulation

Tamsin Snow

Chief nursing officer post to be downgraded in DH shake-up

Erin Dean

Organ donation procedure streamlined after murder

A matter of money

Elaine Cole