The nurse’s role in promoting smoking cessation

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Nurses are doing good work in Iraq

Jane Houghton

Make some noise on pay bands

Let us work together on role models

Emma Robinson

Humour is my core value

Stephen Groves

This decision is demoralising

Lynn Broadhurst

Christmas can be therapeutic

Lynn Thomas Lancaster

These managers lack insight

Kara Earl Kettering

Managers wrong to give Santa the sack

Margaret Watt Arbroath

Christmas soap suds

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

Starting out

Waranga Sarwar

Give a little goodwill at work

Jennifer Percival

‘Tis the season to read

David Newnham, Daniel Allen, Jane Bates, Tim Madge, Jennifer Percival, Linda Thomas, Beverly Malone, Stephen Wright, Jean Gray, Nicola Lester

Standardlife

Daniel Allen

‘Unaccustomed as I am...’

Jane Bates

Living in the Past

Linda Thomas

The rite of patients

Mat O’Connor, Mike Lehane, Sue Szczepanska, Kate Chapman

Celebrate creativity

Colin Rees

A gift for hypochondriacs

John Naish

What are your core values?

The best medicine

Joe Hoare

Positive feedback

Polly Baxter, Karen Chilver, Helen Davies, Douglas Ridley, Maureen Gill

Nurses in the spotlight

Sarah Harrison

Learning the hard way

Graham Scott

Here to stay

Sarah Harrison

Reducing sedentary behaviour improves glucose metabolism

Reproductive histories shed light on glioma in women

No change in prescribing plans

Report calls self-regulation into question

Call for whistle-blower policies

Shipman nurse ‘could have acted as deterrent’

Christian Duffin, Lucy Gooding

Minorities neglected by maternity services

On the move

Cancer experiences go on show

US removes exam barrier to woo overseas recruits

Colin Parish

Agency rules not tough enough

Graham Scott

Payout pruned in latex allergy case

Diversity delegates in downbeat mood

Colin Parish

Patients involved in nurse interviews

Unions fight rise in retirement age

Colin Parish

Time to stop apologising, says CNO

Books prescribed for mild depression

Investigation into service inequalities

Paul Dinsdale

Cleaning powers tied up in red tape

Sarah Harrison

NHS is missing targets on falls

Trusts urged to ease matrons’ workloads

Funding rethink in continuing care

The legacy of Shipman

Jean Gray