Keeping it personal

Bernadette Devlin

Making a claim for expensive payment protection insurance

Teri Harman

Notice board

Forging new community services

Lynne Wallis

Educated for practice

Helen Gilbert

Skin flora: implications for nursing

Dinah Gould

Spiritual care

Helen Fowles

The benefits of creative therapy for people with dementia

Paula Rylatt

The diversity of human factors: illustrating the relevance for nursing

Beverley Norris

Moos, Trudie

Laurence Dopson

New tool offers useful advice on building resilience

Ros Stuart

Authorisation and safeguards for the deprivation of liberty

Andrew Makin

Research into circumcision and the risk of prostate cancer

Hugh Young

Could rickets again become a common childhood condition?

Ellen Crosby

Challenging the government at the ballot box over its reforms

Zuzana Khan

Non-team players should never have been accepted as students

Nursing needs to recruit individuals with good emotional intelligence

Paul Hardcastle

Stonewall

Drew Payne

Dolycwrt – The Days of a Country Doctor’s Surgery

Christine Eberhardie

Pathological Altruism

Greta McGough

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings

Mark Pittman

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

Margaret Paul

Inspired by the olympics to think about exercise

Amanda Cheesley

Good communication enhanced a vulnerable patient’s hospital stay

Antonia Kitching

Readers panel - Rights and wrongs of birth control

Greece grease

Novel ideas

In search of answers

Peter Griffiths

Judith Ellis stresses the importance of appropriate referral to the regulator

Dangerous beginnings

Elizabeth Lynch

Plugging a gap in support

Antonia Dean, Tara Beaumont

In the market for change

Alison Moore

Speaking the truth

Adele Waters, Alison Whyte

Supportive text messages aid adherence to HIV regimens and may impede epidemic

Heavy rucksacks associated with scoliosis and back pain in schoolchildren

Most people treated for schizophrenia experience no lasting improvements in health

Kidney donors at lower risk of major cardiovascular event, despite reduced renal function

Breastfeeding advice should be tailored to individual families

‘Dysfunctional’ regulator accepts criticisms and plans for change

Tamsin Snow

Union seeks royal intervention over NHS rates for jubilee holiday

Jennifer Sprinks

Dementia care boosted in Scotland

Understaffed A&E may reopen soon

Trust agrees to stop targeting pay rises as penalty for sick leave

World in brief

News in brief

Research panel to discuss if compassion is measurable

BAPEN survey highlights young adult malnutrition

‘Job at the games is my career peak ’

Employers fail challenge to improve staff fitness in time for the Olympics

Jennifer Sprinks

Staff to trial mindfulness techniques

Nursing school under threat after reduction in SHA commissions

Tamsin Snow

First Lady backs training drive

Staff morale at ‘rock bottom’ over unpaid leave

Number of breaches of mixed-sex accommodation drops dramatically

DH wants wider pay gap to reflect local market conditions in England

Tamsin Snow

A move to local pay would make no sense

Jean Gray