Quality in the community

Verity Pearce

Building healthier workers

Charlie Callanan

Quality in the community

Verity Pearce

Notice board

Building healthier workers

Charlie Callanan

Student life - Emotions in check

Helen Allan

Cervical cancer

Lindsay McKay

Immunisation: promoting travel health

Jane Chiodini

Cervical cancer

Lindsay McKay

Immunisations

Sonia Davies

Immunisation: promoting travel health

Jane Chiodini

Reswick and Rogers pressure-time curve for pressure ulcer risk. Part 2

Amit Gefen

Learning disability education in the common foundation programme

Tim Gibson

Hospice provided ideal care at the end of my father’s life

Work needed on dissemination of patient safety alerts

Sue Jordan

Primary care trusts should bolster lymphoedema services

Maggie Alexander

Pay up and shut up about the annual NMC registration fee

Paul Corrigan

International action needed to tackle nurse migration

Sue Campbell

Deployment of band 5 nurses raises questions of integrity

Malcolm Harrison

Student should have talked to her mentor about cash gift

Jennifer Hodges

Gifts from patients are simply an expression of appreciation for care

Marc Kay

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Good Practice in Safeguarding Children – Working Effectively in Child Protection

Dee Harris

Good Practice in Safeguarding Children – Working Effectively in Child Protection

Dee Harris

Urologic Disorders – Adult and Pediatric Care

Ellie Stewart

Essential Study Skills for Health and Social Care

Ruth Sander

Urologic Disorders – Adult and Pediatric Care

Ellie Stewart

Essential Study Skills for Health and Social Care

Ruth Sander

Webwise

Amanda Norman

A lesson in discretion about personal information

Francesa Elliott

Readers panel - Gender inequality

Steve Flatt, Paul Jebb, Lorraine Jeffs, Alison Crumbie

Party pooper

Jane Bates

‘Dave’ Newnham wonders why we worry about our forms of address

David Newnham

A top down answer to patient safety

James Buchan

It will take more than cash offers to beat obesity

Anne Diamond

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Patient who was abusive to his wife left me feeling uneasy

Amy Cray

Voices - Tony Hazell explains new NMC guidance on personal and professional conduct

Tony Hazell

From the sidelines

Doug King

Domestic help

Jane Cook, Kate Tansley

Heart felt approach

Carol Davis

Education, not income, linked to high blood pressure in women

Regulations unlikely to change food adverts aimed at children

Use of aspirin in primary prevention is questioned

Study links substance misuse with psychiatric comorbidity

Patients with long-term conditions at risk from funding anomaly

Are nurses ready for the full impact of swine flu on the health service?

Lack of rheumatology nurses inhibits good care

Ten-year NHS plan falling short in primary care, report warns

Game helps children test blood glucose

Lecturers distressed by abusive messages and harassment

Widowed student campaigns for fairer access to bereavement fund

Sophie Blakemore

Nurse appointed new chair of mid staffs trust

News in brief

Boost to hospital ends decade of uncertainty

System revamp may signal end of free nursing care, RCN warns

Tamsin Snow

DH proposes workforce passport so patients can check credentials

Tamsin Snow

‘Fit for practice’ staff are a good influence

Online data allows nurses to compare quality of services

Funding squeeze reduces child protection training

Commission to examine nurses’value

Is your ward leader one of the best in the UK?

Emotional intelligence vital for patient safety, nurse leaders told

Laura Doherty

Vital voice in the boardroom

Jean Gray