No need to retire

Carol Davis

Notice board

Woman-centred care

Gavin Garman

Emotional maturity does not necessarily come automatically with increasing years

Pauline Stuttard

Better with people

Kerry Stott

Tips for survival on your path to becoming a nurse

Bethann Siviter

Building a career

Cathy Taylor

Smart information

Andrea Thomas, Rachel Swinglehurst

Words of welcome

Susan Lee

Has the revolution come full circle?

Kath Sharples

Advanced liver cirrhosis

Suzy Heywood

Improving nutritional support for adults in primary and secondary care

Andrea Cartwright

Low maternal weight: effects on maternal and infant health during pregnancy

Emma Derbyshire

Recognising dysfunctional breathing in asthma consultations

Yvonne Henderson

Planning for pandemic influenza

John Alcock, John Delieu

Citizens’ juries on NHS just another political exercise

Stephen Weeks

Nursing needs good data to demonstrate productivity

Sharon Levy

The only job i can get is as a care worker at £6.50 an hour

Ann Yoal

Sad day for RCN members whose voices were not heard

Zeba Arif

Was the pay dispute worth it just to make a bit of noise?

Paul Hopkins

Is the ‘silent majority’ now running the RCN?

May McCreaddie

Deeply disappointed at vote to accept revised pay offer

Gordon Lees

School fruit and vegetables schemes have a downside

Stuart Taylor

Patients’ fluid intake should be balanced with their food

Susan Holmes

Deciding to let a relative die is a heavy responsibility

Moireach Harmer

Fifteen is too young to know that you really want a career as a nurse

Mandy Stephen

Cures and Curiosities - Inside the Wellcome Library

Bruce Lindsay

AIDS and Governance

Tom Cantle

Palliative Care Nursing of Children and Young People

Pauline Carson

Starting out - Why i will never forget the importance of basic skills

Jane Schulz

Standard life: An ancient plumbing system reminds Daniel Allen strongly of the NHS

Daniel Allen

Sun, sand, sea… and Sydney

Scott Justice, Mike Lehane, Dean-David Holyoake, Kate Tantam

Serious pain

Jane Bates

David Newnham is amazed by the public’s appetite for ‘causes and cures’

David Newnham

Living each day

Dawn Dyne

VOICES - Elizabeth Anionwu finds that a simple act can mean the world to relatives

Elizabeth Anionwu

A break in service

Jo Carlowe

Screening for all

Lynne Colagiovanni, Andrea Cartwright, Christine Russell

MUST for nutrition

Packed lunches and school dinners both poor in nutrients

People with high IgE less likely to have severe sting reaction

State pension in the UK is ‘barrier to healthy living’

Depression and anxiety can be the result of high job demands

Hospitals in deprived areas have more beds and nurses

Keith Hurst

Can nurses tackle the obesity crisis?

Tamsin Snow

Free pints – and they are healthy too

Patient nutrition suffers through lack of basic weighing equipment

Adele Waters

£100 prize in our poster competition

NICE to recruit nurses online for guideline development groups

News in brief

Liberal Democrats will find out what you want

Scottish regulation under review

‘Stress is turning nurses to drink and drugs’

Eleventh hour recruitment drive to boost number of new students

Alison Moore

Good effort fails to win place in sheepdog trials

Work/life balance could be a lot better

NHS pension overhaul means higher contributions from April

Tamsin Snow

Third strike at Manchester trust

Wage bonus short lived

Now cardigans look set for a ban at work

Back pay in time for Christmas

DH accused of failing to act on its own policies for race equality

Colin Parish

Racial equality in question

Jean Gray