Governing bodies

Alice Faure Walker, Leona McHugh

Governing bodies

Walker Alice Faure, Leona McHugh

From the source

Ann Close

Notice board

Just a minute

Positive reflections

Liz Piper

Cancer care

Alison Atkinson

Managing type 1 diabetes in childhood and adolescence

Lesley Lowes

The legal status of the term ‘next of kin’

Emma James, Marc A Cornock

A practical approach to breathing control in primary care

Yvonne Henderson

Promoting patient safety using an early warning scoring system

Yvonne Higgins, Caroline Maries-Tillott, Sarah Quinton, Jo Richmond

Compassion must not become a point scoring exercise

Denise Webb

Dignity is at the heart of palliative care work too

Celia Manson

No dignity in having to beg for basic postoperative care

By 2068 we might be training only specialist nurses

Festus Umatta

Nursing has to find its voice to survive the next 60 years

Alison Leary

There is nothing privileged or sacred about nursing

Amanda Skinner

Nurses best placed to drive Lord Darzi’s review forward

BJ Waltho

Compulsory colour-coded identity badges could replace NHS uniforms

Robin Kuhnert

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care – Helping Patients Change Behavior

Graham Sloan

Paedophiles, Child Abuse and the Internet

John Thain

Trauma, Repair and Recovery

Pam Nelmes

Burn all clipboards and ban pointless box-ticking assessments

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - A step too far?

Jane Brown, Sue Szczepanska, Esther Tanton, Julie Clarke

My own diagnosis has given me insight into how patients feel

Ellen McDaid

Being there

Jane Bates

Healthy eating is a pleasure when you grow your own greens

David Newnham

Prejudice in mind

Keep your old tights, they could help women in Africa

Linda Thomas

A time for forward thinking

Catharine Sadler

Blast from the past

Elisabeth Lynch

Teen support

Carol Davis

Reduced risk of small babies for pregnant women who take iron

Hay fever in older people associated with prevalence of stroke

High mortality from MRSA contracted outside hospital

Alternative therapies popular among those at risk of cancer

Lord Darzi’s vision of the future nursing workforce

A major boost for training

‘Treat transient ischaemic attacks more seriously’

Hydration policy in care home reduces falls

Betty prepares to bow out from the job she has loved for 60 years

Smoking ban in mental health units may be counter-productive

Jennifer Sprinks

Staff offered shopping points incentive to lose weight

Delay in revamp of on-call payments

A&E collaborates with police to halt rise in alcohol-related cases

Christian Duffin

Health visitors back bilingualism

News in brief

Mileage allowance to go up amid calls for more compensation

Change will need careful planning to be successful

Unions set to demand review of pay deal in light of inflation rises

Community work to be measured

Report launched at top social enterprise

Darzi’s plan focuses on

Tamsin Snow

Health secretary keeps his promise

Regulator failed to make patient safety a priority, claims report

Colin Parish

Darzi review is a clarion call

Jean Gray