Master of laws in medical law and ethics

Notice board

Protecting public health

Cardiac nursing on the next level

Joanna Atkinson

Differences of opinion

Mary Brosnan, Cartina Heffernan

Breast cancer

Amy Bartlett

Promoting health in primary care

Clare Bennett, Jane Perry, Zoe Lawrence

Preventing transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease

Andrea Harris, Catherine Howell

Academic writing: using literature to demonstrate critical analysis

Kathleen Duffy, Elizabeth Hastie, Jacqueline McCallum, Valerie Ness, Lesley Price

Lecturers who are abused and harassed by students

Sara White

Advice on meningitis was welcome and invaluable

Amanda Norman

Helping patients may require a spiritual dimension

John Dunn

Moral judgements can serve as a driver for better care

Karen Humphreys

Do students really want to sacrifice their credibility?

Cherill Scott

Talk of assisted dying makes people fear for their lives

Ken Mack

Safeguard the vulnerable by using advance decisions

Denise Shanahan

My experience of getting tamiflu was a chaotic one

Drew Payne

Equality and diversity must be an integral part of all nhssystems

Joan Myers

The Welcome Visitor – Living Well, Dying Well

Mary Turner

Law and Professional Issues in Nursing

Marc Cornock

Studying for Continuing Professional Development in Health

Stuart Cable

Total recall

Jane Bates

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Bruce Lindsay

Starting out

Colette Tarling

A teenage dilemma: medication or lipgloss?

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - Inverse incentive

Brid Hehir, Linda Drake, Alison Crumbie, Scott Justice

Outsidein

David Newnham

Believe it or not

Stephen Wright

Voices

Rosemary Cook

In the here and now

Jenny Knight

Quality commitment

Jenny Knight

In a time of change

Sue Learner

Coffee ingredients may protect against respiratory disease

Adolescents at risk of depression do well in group therapy

China and the former soviet union have high mdrtb rates

Children could benefit from freedom to be active

Safeguarding the most vulnerable: the next step

Rcn promises new guidance on assisted suicide after policy change

All together now hospital sings out the good hand hygiene message

College to get tough on xenophobia

Mps to begin inquiry into the future funding of long-term social care

Trust to double graduate numbers in bid to promote nursing research

Tamsin Snow

Safeguarding authority rethinks evidence process

Watchdog criticises over-reliance on temporary cover at mid staffs

Erin Dean

A quarter of calls from nurse whistleblowers to be followed up by RCN

News in brief

Flawed systems and long hours put patients at risk

Proposals outline ten-year plan to improve mental health care

Sophie Blakemore

NMC stands ground on new register

Rcn members join the royals at buckingham palace

Nhs urged to cut consultancy fees instead of services and jobs

DH plans to move pregnant staff away from swine flu risk areas

Erin Dean, Sophie Blakemore

Street friends scheme

Changing coronary care

Joanna Atkinson

Cuts can never be pain-free

Jean Gray