Greetings from scutari

Alex Attewell

Learning and Sharing with VSO

Alex Vernon

Breaking new ground

Notice board

Student life - in a virtual world

Gavin Innes

Medication adherence

Laura Demmen

Using wikis as an online health information resource

Paula Younger

Dr clark confronted the way mental health is perceived

Carol Evans

Bowel cancer screening for younger people with colitis

Amy Wickens, Camberley, Surrey

Let’s build on the success of this year’s congress service

Cris Allen

Lobbying to support people with a personality disorder

William J Corulla

Dr Foster’s mortality ratios are provided independently

Andrew Kliman

Guidance on assisted suicide from the RCN is long overdue

Maggie Bisset

Good managers realise that care happens at the bedside

Bridget Ryan

Why should we be penalised for illnesses resulting from our work?

Sue Obbard

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

Margaret Paul

Pension Handbook – A Complete Guide to Saving For Your Retirement

Greta McGough

A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Critical Care

Wendy Fuller

Unequal Ageing – The Untold Story of Exclusion in Old Age

Wendy Fuller

Outside in

David Newnham

Far-reaching benefits

Mary-Claire Mason

Webwise

Monica Haggart

Starting out intoxicated patient needed an advocate to protect his leg

Annabel Shrimpton

My bicycle makes me free, independent and fit

Sara Redgewell

Readers panel

Lorraine Jeffs, Christopher Barber, Julie Clarke, Jane Scullion

Down time

Jane Bates

I am haunted still

Voices This is a time to reflect on our contribution to chronic care, says Peter Carter

Peter Carter

Work in progress

Richard Shrubb

Breathing space

Alison Handley

Display of dedication

Lauren Garner

Patients favour Alexander technique for back pain

Anxiety about dying not the same in all older people

Live organ donors have same life expectancy as general public

Oral contraceptive users are less likely to die from cancer

Why consensus proves elusive for advanced practitioner regulation

Management of autoimmune associated alopecia areata

Jaqueline McKillop

National Chemotherapy Advisory Group report: implications for nurses

Elaine Lennan, Helen Roe, Annie Young, Maggie Crowe

Message of support for greece

Chief nurse calls for more black leaders

NMC will refer trust to inspectorates over leadership

Hull kiosk offers condoms and chlamydia tests

Ward sisters’ work at beleaguered trust brings huge improvements

Erin Dean

Call for HCA medication training

Senior staff seek best ways of carrying out commission’s advice

Fund-raising work restores window

News in brief

Multi-professional centre for palliative care opens

Nurse study establishes work stress link to risk of heart disease

Heston’s helping hand to hospital food study

RCN members call for practical exam to test student competence

Erin Dean

Health workers should be wellbeing role models, says ICN

Regulator consults on proposed boost for midwifery standards

Jennifer Sprinks

Poignant Ceremony for Mary Seacole

Election result leaves profession with two MPs at Westminster

Erin Dean, Bill Doult

Rising to the health challenge

Graham Scott