Notice board

The filter-up approach

Derek Barron

Fair play on assessment

Sue Cumming

Urinary catheters

Charlotte Sandifer

Nursing management of common oncological emergencies

Mark Foulkes

Grief and bereavement theories

Edith Buglass

Assessment of acutely ill patients in the criminal justice system

Tracy Lapworth, Clare Bennett, Jane Perry

Rosie Purves

Laurence Dopson

Are men really a nouveau minority group in nursing?

Jason Crabtree

I was lucky to attend lecture by professor wilf mcsherry

Jaki Bennett

Make a difference by working with heartstart initiative

Verity Maclachlan

Final practical exams are not new – i took mine 57 years ago

Reynagh Jarrett

Let us honour billie thomson with simple acts of kindness

June Andrews

All the factors in medication errors need to be examined

Aimee Peters

Move to abolish waiting time targets may have been made too hastily

Yvonne Henson

Cholera – The Biography

Laurence Dopson

First Do No Harm – Being a Resilient Doctor in the 21st Century

Graeme Smith

Psychology for Health Professionals

Helen Goddard

British Medical Acupuncture Society

Inspiring vision

Ann McMahon

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Experienced auxiliary treated measif i wasanaughty child

Claire Young

The quest for meaning, purpose and relationship

Stephen Wright

Readers panel - A TV break with convention

Janet Smith, Scott Justice, Linda Drake, Alison Crumbie

Baffling times

Jane Bates

Nurses are vital in ensuring the best end of life care

Steve Jenkin

Voices - Peter Carter says epilepsy nurse specialists should be recognised and protected

Peter Carter

Very premature babies now live longer, but still do not survive

Patients who have angina pectoris receive sub-optimal treatment

Screening tests for lung cancer have high false positives

Moderate-intensity physical activity goes up, but so too does television viewing

Thousands of posts to disappear as the NHS austerity drive begins

Reliance on students

Time for a caseload approach

Sidone Chilufya

Webwise

Angela Avis

Children at heart

Soodevi Boolkah

Practice makes perfect

Alison Moore

Exceptional work

Kate Hendy

Improvement in safeguard referrals

Project to update image of nursing careers

Tributes paid to equality campaigner

Rewards on the inside

Jenny Knight

Standard issue for workforce

Staff will be told to wash uniforms themselves in cost cutting drive

Richard Staines

Volume of paperwork to be examined at trust deaths inquiry

News in brief

College welcomes easing of A&E targets

Plans to crack down on hospital re-admissions win mixed reviews

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Government responds to vetting and barring challenge

Students’ course survey suggests wide gaps in satisfaction levels

Erin Dean

Unions warn workforce about looming squeeze on pensions

Nurses’ contribution recognised in Queen’s birthday honours list

Patients’ deaths spark call for advanced practitioner regulation

Erin Dean

The new gatekeepers

Graham Scott