Aim for the higher ground

Marc Cornock

Demand and supply

Vari Drennan

Student life - Stand up for specialists

Charles Sloan

Lung cancer

Hardwicke Kate

Strategies to help nurses cope with change in the healthcare setting

Bob Price

The effect of antipsychotic medication on metabolic syndrome

Martin Jones, Adrian Jones

Intravenous iron administration in a short-stay hospital setting

George Peebles, Sean Fenwick

Barbara McNulty

Laurence Dopson

Please tell us if you are feeling the pinch

Adele Waters

I had a positive experience at the London Pride parade

Alison Bradford

Award winning charity helps people with leg ulcers

Claire Weston

Forcing treatment on a patient defies nursing ethics

Gareth Hammond

Pain and nausea observations have improved our care

Yasmine Houston

Where is the evidence for sexual orientation survey?

Janet Smith

Thirty years of initiatives, yet young people are still being treated badly

Malcolm Rae

Understanding Health and Social Care

Gordon Valentine

Occupational Therapy and Vocational Rehabilitation

Bashyr Aziz

An Illustrated History of the Royal Northern Hospital 1856-1992

Laurence Dopson

In good hands

Alan Parrish

The science bit

Monica Dobie

Starting out - My attempt to advocate for a vulnerable patient was in vain

Laura Tarry

Daniel Allen hopes, for his sake at least, the NHS hobbles on a tad longer

Daniel Allen

Readers panel - Care on a metric scale

Sue Szczepanska, Mike Lehane, Carol Singleton, Jane Brown

Stress points

Jane Bates

I am not going near a beach without my wonder drug

David Newnham

The human cost

Lynne Wallis

Healthcare staff cannot afford to be partisan in dealing with knife crime

Sharon Dennis

Eyes on the prize

Christian Duffin

Children with ADHD do not benefit from taking St John’s wort

High school baseball players should wear protective helmets

Reducing blood sugar too much puts patients with diabetes at risk

How smoking cessation affects death rates in women

We heard about exemplary work, but bad practice too

Ann Norman

‘All professionals share responsibility for improving learning disability care’

Online access to library reviewed

Phones may help tackle infection

Police recruitment system could be copied by nursing

Specialty dolls used as educational tool

Night nurses’ naps call set to be rejected

Project to restore compassion is transforming care, says founder

Steven Black

Campaign ‘wins justice for nurses’

Reporting of harmful nutrition errors doubles in past two years

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Variable continence services prompt call for fairer system

Unions demand parity in funds for students

Call for people with learning disabilities to help train staff

Fear of harm keeps nurses out the army

Housing ladder out of reach as nurses’salaries fail to keep pace

Tamsin Snow

Trust apologises for its mistakes over deadly infection outbreak

Nurse wins landmark ruling that her wages were unlawfully cut

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Council workers’ pay victory could allow claims from NHS

A scandal of poor care

Jean Gray