Help is just a phone call away

Steven Li, Charlotte Brooks

Notice board

Leading the way

The final placement

Joanne Hardy

Cancer support

Alan Abraham

HIV and AIDS: transmission, testing and treatment

Jason Flannigan

Hand hygiene technique

Dinah Gould, Nick Drey

Bed bathing patients in hospital

Lindsey Downey, Hilary Lloyd

Eileen Mary Rees OBE, FRCN

Laurence Dopson

Correction

Direct link between health inequality and ‘worklessness’

Sharon Horan

Helping patients get back to work is vital for their health

Caroline Whittaker

Registration fee debacle sours my trust in government

Malcolm Harrison

I can vouch for the effectiveness of icross

Paul Tarbuck

Resist becoming surrogate junior doctors

Jane Collantine

I will not let NHS pressures affect my caring attitude

Can our caring attitudes withstand the pressure of working in the NHS?

Danny Clarke

In Wards, Out Wards – Poems and Stories from Nursing and Beyond

Peter Barraclough

The Invisible Man – A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia

Mike Lehane

The Living End – The Future of Death, Aging and Immortality

Sam Chenery-Morris

Starting out - Assisting in the delivery room can be tense and emotional

Amy Cray

Standard life - Daniel Allen takes a look at contemporary social evils, such as spicy chicken wings

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Right to be heard

Sarah Esegbona, Roger Cowell, Scott Justice, Elsie Gayle

Clouds of joy

Jane Bates

David Newnham glories in his first – and last – ever sports injury

David Newnham

Closed attitudes

Consign health inequalities to the dustbin of history

Peter Carter

Face up to facts

Nurses secure joint success

Catharine Sadler

Guaranteed clean

Catherine Tighe

Cause for celebration

Carol Davis

Study shows latest recreational drug is still relatively rare

Sleep apnoea not related to subjective night sweats

Drug substitution can be safely managed in primary care practice

Consumers prefer food labels with simple messages

How well are English regions managing negligence risks?

Keith Hurst

Highly trained, valued by patients and cost-effective – but under threat

Falklands war veterans say thank you

Easy-to-remember code may replace current NHS Direct phone number

Care home report calls for better training and supervision at night

Laura Doherty

New laws protect only hospital staff

Clowns are not so scary after all

News in brief

New professional code takes effect this week

Conservative Party is jumping on polyclinic bandwagon, says RCN

Building society apologises after refusing to accept nurses as verifiers

Christian Duffin

Student experience leads to abortion limit campaign

A million hours a week spent on paperwork

Staff shortages and targets are barriers to dignified care

NMC ban for prescribing offences

‘Nurses have not forgotten the basics,’RCN president insists

Colin Parish

Minister to hear concerns about specialist posts

Carter says three-year deal is best on offer

Colin Parish

Health secretary prepares for key pay speech

Undervalued and underpaid

Jean Gray