Failure is an option

Yvonne Wimbleton

Work in progress

Frances Pickersgill

Equality control

Jane Whyatt

Optimising palliative and end of life care in hospital

Stuart Milligan

Liver transplantation

Emmanuel Duma

Importance of hand hygiene during invasive procedures

Claire Kilpatrick, Heather Murdoch, Julie Storr

Educational responses to unethical healthcare practice

Catharine Grob, Jane Leng, Ann Gallagher

McFarlane, Baroness

Laurence Dopson

Some NMC fitness to practise cases could be dealt with locally

Lorraine Scaife

Delirium article reassured me that I am not losing my mind

George Cowley

Patients benefit from progress in autism diagnosis techniques

Open University opportunity for healthcare assistants

Chris Sykes

Calm and kind nurse has been my lifelong inspiration

Teresa Chinn

Time to stop those with ageist attitudes in their tracks

June Andrews

Linking pay to performance ignores what nursing is all about: teamwork

Tom Bolger

National awareness and early diagnosis initiative

Rachael Rowe

Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram – A Nurse’s Story from the Streets

Catharine Sadler

Physics in Anaesthesia

Simon McGurk

Then Life Took Control – A Journal: From Sickness to Wellbeing

Graeme Smith

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

Margaret Paul

Join our fight to improve nutrition in hospitals

Andrea Cartwright, Wendy-Ling Relph

My actions led to a patient with diabetes regaining consciousness

Linah Chauke

Reders panel – giving the wrong impression

Linda Drake, Stephanie Cumming, Alison Crumbie, Steve Flatt

It’s not natural

Simple solution

Male health shocker

Alan White

Jean Gray is adamant that employers must pay for nurses’ training

A champion idea?

Jennifer Trueland

‘This house believes that caring can and should be measured’

Carol Haigh, Tanya McCance, Ann Bradshaw, John Paley

Be a guiding light

Stephen Wright

Link dismissed between beta blockers and reduced risk of colorectal cancer

Early aggressive treatment may benefit African American patients with scleroderma

Test of drawing skills could flag up likelihood of death form stroke for older men

People with common form of epilepsy face additional challenge of ‘brain ageing’

Study indicates taking statins is beneficial in asthma management

Nursing initiative aims to deliver improvements despite the cuts

Healthcare volunteers needed in Malawi

Research reveals lack of financial support for top-up qualications

Sally Gillen

NMC’s plan to increase fees by £44 a year is ‘excessive’, say health unions

Controversial pay consultation to begin

World in brief

Political calling prompts Sandra to stand down

Nurses prepare for extra workload during doctors’ day of action

Jennifer Sprinks

Nurse education needs could be sidelined by new training boards

Sally Gillen

Running feat raises £2,000 for armed forces charity

RCN questions robustness of practice nurse ratings

Hundreds of NHS Direct posts may go, says Unison

News in breif

Nurse transplant recipients star in organ donation film

Campaign to improve fundamental care wins backing from across UK

Adele Waters, Christian Duffin

Training bodies need nurse representation

Graham Scott