Assess your options

Mike Bowler

Undernutrition in hospital patients

Susan Holmes

Nutrition in pregnancy: the facts and fallacies

Gail R Goldberg

Modernising the 12-hour shift

Amelia Lea, Charlotte Bloodworth

Outside in

David Newnham

Hands-on nursing is a privilege not a chore

Helen Britton

Advanced nursing roles can benefit patients

Colette Robertson

You call it a menial task, I call it holistic care

Christina Scott

Discrimination means some quit before they even start

We have to speak clearly if we want to be heard

Louis Tshimuanga

Mature students need equally mature mentors

Karen Radakovic

Reforms still seem more theory than reality

Stephen Weeks

No excuse for ignorance in workforce planning

Jennifer Hunt

What Works What Doesn’t – The Guide to Alternative Healthcare

Angela Avis

Nursing and the Division of Labour in Healthcare

Juliette Cosgrove

What’s on: the best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Chance to make decisions empowers nurses

Bernadette Ramos

You’ve got to laugh

Matthew Richards

Down the pan

Mark Jones

In my hands

Elizabeth Farrow

Ask the experts

Research notes

Richard Wilson

Easing children’s pain

Clare Morrell

Action plan

Jennifer Percival

Would you tell your boss?

Rosie Dalton-Lucas

Don’t blow it

Polly Toynbee

Starting out

Emma Rivera-Cordero

Standard life-The place of dogs and cats in the modern NHS

Daniel Allen

Can you trust a no-blame culture?

Christopher Humm, Stephen Weeks, Roger Cowell, Marie John

Change of service

Pat Healy

Distance learning

Steven Black

Life potential

Louise Love

Another door opens

Colin Parish

Comparison of skin preparation to prevent wound infection

Number of physical activities changes during adolescence

Highest proportion of patients attend A&E on Mondays

Control of hypertension in older people has improved

Consultant role ‘not recognised’

Appraisal scheme invites patients’ views

Men and women divided on what makes a leader

Sarah Harrison

Protest to save hospital

Foreign secretary urged to act on underqualified staff

Sarah Harrison, Christian Duffin

Religions challenged over HIV prejudice

Use judgement with pressure sore guidance

News in brief

Four-day working week halves sickness absence

Christian Duffin

Disability services face set backs

Hospital digest

Cadet schemes work yet trusts unconvinced

Nurses would consider job change for a parking space

Paul Dinsdale

Part-time nurses have better job satisfaction

Opinion split over new trusts

Pay negotiation delays hit April increase

Demand for performance indicator on staff skill mix

Adele Waters

The viewers’ votes are in

Order of the day

Register reduced to three parts

Standard of proof to fall in professional conduct cases

Christian Duffin

NMC in brief

Shifting the boundaries

Jean Gray

Learning disability plans still not a priority