Inquiring minds

Alison Jenkins

Inquiring minds

Alison Jenkins

Caring for the patient with an intestinal obstruction

Elaine Hughes

Caring for the patient with an intestinal obstruction

Elaine Hughes

Sun exposure and health

Paul Affleck

Student attendance during college-based lectures: a pilot study

Suzanne J Hughes

Dame Cicely Saunders OBE Hospice movement founder 1918-2005

Laurence Dopson

Allow third-year students to administer medication

Pamela Storey

We should not lose sight of good communication

Deb Neale

Let’s stop finger pointing and start working together

Andrew Makin

Poor care is never cheap care in the long run

Fiona Howell

Nurses’ sexual scruples are not important to patients

Sally Boxall

When it comes to cruelty there is no room for spin

Sue Garratt

Undercover Nurse highlights need to show compassion for colleagues

Warren Lodge

Copd – ‘at your fingertips’

Sue Cross

Pharmaceutical parallel trade in the UK

Elspeth Raisbeck

Moving Mountains

Laurence Dopson

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Tim Blackshaw

Nurture older people and help them bloom

Colin Parish

Time to shout from the rooftops

Starting out-When you say too much… or too little

Nicholas Lee

Agenda for change

Scott Justice

Outside in

David Newnham

The drive of your life

Jane Bates

VOICES-Sharon Dennis is impressed by an act of leadership she witnessed

Sharon Dennis

Charitable view

Rosemary Cook

Standard life

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Teenage kick

Graham Houghton, Roger Cowell, Chris Mayer, Jane Scullion

Learning curve

Ian Birkinshaw

Learn side by side

Carolyn Jones

Jolly good fellow

Veronica Morris

Notice board

With military precision

Flexible working helps retain key staff

Happy midwives, happy mothers

Lynne Pearce

Free distribution of nicotine patches helps people quit smoking

Early tracheostomy reduces ICU stay by more than a fortnight

Giving patients control of partner treatment cuts sexual infections

Cost and benefit analysis of improved prenatal care

Landmark for NHS commissioning

Waiting for the results to come in

Seamus Ward

BBC takes nursing back to the 1950s

Male nurses perceived as more capable than female professionals

Sarah Harrison

Current pledges safe at university of sheffield

Fears that mental health nursing review could boost security role

Nurses ‘should have say in new technology’

Colin Parish

Physical attacks against health workers occur every two hours

Felicity Waters

Protest served up at lunchtime

News in brief

Concern over vulnerable adults care list

Christian Duffin

Inquiry into bedside phone charges

Deans demand NMC produces evidence

Poor employers set to face spot checks

Christian Duffin

Star return for TV trauma hospital

Seacole biography aimed at nurses

Pay reform anomaly sees juniors jump ahead of more qualified staff

Mounting deficits lead to trusts cutting nursing jobs ‘by stealth’

Colin Parish

NMC to issue media guidelines

Nursing roles are expanding on an ‘uncontrolled basis’, report claims

Colin Parish

The political stop-go cycle

Jean gray