Student life - Time is not on my side

Lorna Pindar

Notice board

Rethink Christmas

Alison Jenkins

In the spotlight

Colleen Wedderburn Tate

Neurological assessment

Andrea Morgan

Familial hypercholesterolaemia: clinical features and management

Alison Pottle

Key issues in setting up and running a nurse-led cardiology clinic

Richard Hatchett

Patient safety:improving incident reporting

David Bird

Oxford brookes is proud of the support for its students

Annie Thompson-Lynch

Don’t blame nursing staff for every problem in hospitals

Jacqui Hammond

Researchers should not rely solely on government papers

Patrick Cunningham

It is easy to forget how much nurses mean to the public

Kenny Clarke

RCN Headquarters headline ‘unnecessarily alarmist’

Sylvia Denton

Dangerous to be simplistic about mental health review

Peter Cartwright

Patients fall ill every day of the year – and that includes Christmas Day

Helen Vanderstam

TV radio books websites-Nobody’s home – candid reflections of a nursing home aide

Greta McGough

Standard life - Despite his best efforts Daniel Allen isn’t feeling particularly cheery this Christmas

Daniel Allen

Christmas soap suds

The festive season’s best health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Karen Elcock

OutsideIn

David Newnham

VOICES - Imagine how you would cope if you suddenly acquired a disability, says Linda Thomas

Linda Thomas

The quiet life

Jane Bates

Readers panel - What New Year resolutions are you planning to make? We asked our readers panel for theirs

Paul Jebb, Julie Farrell, Julie Walden, Christopher Barber

Starting out - I am proud to have cared for victims of the London bombings

Eileen Naughton

The gift of Christmas presence

Zeba Arif

The wonderful adventures of mrs seacole in many lands mary Seacole Penguin 20th century classics

Linda Thomas

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Rosemary Cook

The survivor:bill clinton in the white house

Beverly Malone

60 Ways to Make Your Life Amazing

Sharon Dennis

Freedom at Midnight

Zeba Arif

Know yourself – the individual’s guide to career development in healthcare

Alan Chapman

Gilgamesh

David Newnham

An end to suffering – the buddha in the world Pankaj Mishra Picador/ Pan Macmillan

Stephen Wright

The men who stare at goats

Marc Cornock

Brought to book

Daniel Allen

Sick and tired

Mary Bishop

‘My doctors never make mistakes’

BNI offers valuable free source of information

Kate Clark

Never let me go

Jean Gray

Nostromo

Tim Madge

Fleshmarket close

Jane Bates

‘I never use the word bodice’

‘I have to fancy the hero’

Prescription for love

Thelma Agnew

Routes to success secondments and cadet courses are offering innovative

Wound infection not increased by nitrous oxide anaesthetic

Text messages can help young people quit smoking

Good environments promote activity and normal weight

New cases show HIV/AIDS needs a dual approach

‘Ordinary people can make a difference’

Colin Parish, Claire Bertschinger

Review of the year

Graham Scott

Campaigners urge smoking ban for off-duty staff

US company will train nurses in Ukraine to overcome shortages

Colin parish

News in brief

Experienced nurse ‘sick to stomach’ at pay devaluation

Self-esteem key to fewer teenage pregnancies

WHO expert warns of a world without antibiotics in 30 years

Colin Parish

‘She stood up for freedom’

Overseas staff targeted by racist thugs

Medical bias

Students feel excluded from the team when handover is conducted in Welsh

Nurses claim new research plan has

Colin Parish

Brown hedges on retirement age

Annual NMC registration comes into force

Doctors told to learn from nurses

Rael Martell

Christmas message

Headteachers to get advice on school nurses

Child protection database will help agencies share crucial information

By Sarah Harrison

Government privatisation plan foiled by RCN legal challenge

Colin Parish

300 per cent more hospitals have ‘excellent’ food

Deference is dead

Jean Gray