Lean and simple

Alison Cole

Power of the team

Nicki Hollingsworth

Student life - Make a difference

Shabina Ghafoor

Prostate cancer

Davies Nicola

Understanding schizophrenia

Paul Rigby, James Alexander

Care of patients who have died

Natalie Pattison

Writing for publication: a practical guide

Brenda Happell

Contribute to survey on mentoring and assessment

Antje Preston

Palliative care not enough for a minority of patients

Karen Sanders

Nurses’ pay still unequal to other male workers’ pay

Josie Irwin

After blowing the whistle i learned the awful truth

Judy Jones

Where is the best place to carry out handover?

Katie Cox

Sharing anonymous data can benefit a&e departments

Chris Channer

Most nursing goes on in outpatients settings

Marie Souter

Fussiness about placement setting gives us a bad name

Omega Nicholson

Outpatients is the ideal place to see diverse nursing skills in practice

Sheila Christon

What Women Want From Work – Gender and Occupational Choice in the 21st Century

Greta Thornbory

Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women – A Group Leader’s Handbook

Peter Barraclough

Knowledge Set Dementia

Alan Chapman

Change is scary but clinging to the status quo is depressing

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Pitfalls of sedation

Janet Smith, Stephen Weeks, Mike Lehane, Zeba Arif

Starting out - I saw a patient die in pain after it took too long to get his drugs

Serina Aboim

Frail elderly

Jane Bates

Shouting and waving comes naturally in an emergency

David Newnham

Know your patient

Joanne McDonnell

Peter Carter outlines a six-step plan to transform the health service

Peter Carter

Meeting the challenges of a changing service

Passion for prescribing

Eileen Munson

Listen and learn

Catharine Sadler

A healthier harvest

Christian Duffin

Needing insulin during pregnancy is a risk for later diabetes

Lanyards and name badges are potential source of infection

Pain of otitis media reduced by local anaesthetic drops

Preventing obesity may not cut the costs of health care

Which areas are in the greatest need of mental health services?

Keith Hurst

Ten years on, have Blair’s ‘super nurses’delivered for patients?

£660,000 boost for self-harm research

Women’s needs being neglected on acute mental health wards

Colin Parish

Suicide support line counsels 4,000 a month

Football improves mental wellbeing

Nurses encouraged to speak out on conditions and poor practice

News in brief

Staff vote on action over ‘derisory’ offer

Ring-fenced budgets demanded to prevent nurse education crisis

Colin Parish

PCT saves £4.5m with home-based rehabilitation team

Defence nurses praised for their inspirational work on the front line

Tamsin Snow

Key worker equity scheme helps share mortgage burden

Latex allergy student wins compensation

Laws to stop assaults at work ‘do not go far enough’

More staff are opting to work in the community

NHS24 staff target for bogus calls

NMC stands firm in response to allegations of mismanagement

Sarah Harrison

We have come so far

Joanne McDonnell