Student Life - Championing change by ‘ticking boxes’

Rachael Melia

Stepping in to help detainees

Lynne Pearce

Notice board

Preparing for the end

Catharine Sadler

Inspiring a generation

Lucille Kelsall-Knight

Early-stage dementia

Peter Hall

Reducing cardiovascular disease risk: cholesterol and diet

Jaqui Walker

Spiritual care at the end of life

Lianne Wynne

The Mental Capacity Act 2005: considerations for nursing practice

Emma Stevens

Obituary

John Adams

Basildon and Orsett students sought for 40-year reunion

Anthony Kinder

Searching for London set 463 who started training in 1980

Ann Evans

Patient choice? Some doctors still think they know best

Gail Vincent

Correction

Please pass my details to Anne O’Toole in Yorkshire

Richard Banderis

Tweets of the week

The lack of genital mutilation prosecutions is a disgrace

Bridget Ryan

Here’s to the growing success of green-fingered therapy

Helen Evans

Zero-hours contracts offer no guarantees of anything at all

Basics of numeracy should be an integral part of nurse training

Helen Grundy

‘White lies’ can sometimes be kinder for people with dementia

Brigid Stubbs

Please sign my petition urging the UN to end all wars by 2030

Saroj Jayasinghe

Retaliation is not the solution to the human suffering in Syria

Gay Lee

Cuts to nursing posts exacerbate an uncaring conveyor-belt system

Sally Hopkinson

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

Margaret Paul

Best Health Depression app

Rory O’Brien

Moore: Clinically Oriented Anatomy – Seventh international edition

Simon McGurk

Mental Health and Growing Up: Factsheets for Parents, Teachers and Young People – Fourth edition

Emma Foster

www.ncepod.org.uk/2013arld.htm

Mark Holmes

Starting out - The things I wish i’d known about all the highs and lows of training

Helen Ballantyne

Not for sharing

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Contracts without the work

Scott Justice, Linda Drake, Stephanie Cumming, Kate Tantam

Generation zzzz

David Newnham

Barrel of laughs

Jane Bates

A sad indictment

Stephen Wright

Voices - Dr King’s dream is still not realised in the UK, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

Admirals to the rescue

Jennifer Trueland

The war on stress

Jennifer Trueland

Psoriasis

Mental health and substance misuse influence military suicide rate more than combat

Black women’s lower survival rate for breast cancer not due to differences in treatment

Contact with ‘care managers’ helps people with depression more than usual GP care

Heart disease screening advised for cancer patients following chest radiotherapy

Midwife-led care is the recommended option for expectant mothers

Too much pressure: NHS employers must invest in nurses’ wellbeing

Stephanie Jones-Berry

Political notebook

Training programmes attempt to address district nurse shortage

World in brief

NHS should tap into experience of defence nurses, says England’s CNO

Jennifer Sprinks

Sexual health course launched

Soap puts pancreatic cancer in spotlight

Late diagnosis of constipation in older people costs £42m a year

Christian Duffin

Fashion-conscious ignore trust policy

News in brief

Inappropriate attendance is top threat to A&E, poll shows

Rescue nurse is ready for anything

CCTV on wards could encourage better practice, says professor

Christian Duffin

Mini-interviews help to recruit students for their values

Buddy system would aid dissemination of patient information

‘Discreet’ handling by school nurses is needed to address lack of toilet training

Third-party feedback could be used to assess nurses’ fitness to practise

Kat Keogh

NMC must strike the right balance on new system

Graham Scott