In the light of experience

Katy Jones

A journey of all-round discovery

Notice board

Award-winning achievement

Lynne Wallis

Proving your point

Benny Goodman

Acute stroke

Ed Rowe

Using the mnemonic ‘brain attack’ in the management of acute stroke

Anne Rowat, Barbara Steele, Billie Morrow

An overview of uterine fibroids

Sue Jolley

Management of home emergencies

Rick Dean, Joe Mulligan

I feel cheated out of a public symbol of three years’ work

Skill mix is the key to retaining experienced staff

Linda Butler

There are three basic steps to motivating nurses

John Berry

Gram-negative bacterium illustration is misleading

Benjamin Johnson

Community mental healthservices are being eroded

Lei Foster

Lansley should come clean on his policy for the NHS

Gail Cartmail

First aid article further confuses a complicated issue

Mark Pittman

It should be nurses’ skills that count, not their gender

Colin Rees

Mobile phones may be useful tools but are banned on wards for a reason

Michelle Watt

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

Donaldsons’ Essential Public Health – Third edition

Monica Haggart

Men in Caring Occupations – Doing Gender Differently

Drew Payne

Ayliffe’s Control of Healthcare Associated Infection – Fifth edition

Dinah Gould

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - I was amazed by the skill and professionalism of paramedics

Vanessa Stapleton

Honour a patient’s request to die without judgement

Gay Lee

Reders panel – alcohol anonymous

Brendan McMahon, Linda Drake, Mandy Allison, Sue Szczepanska

A telling truth

Jane Bates

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Ward to board leadership

Voices - Tony Hazell says the four UK countries can learn from each other

Tony Hazell

Gearing up for winter

Carol Davis

Hearty health

Alison Handley

Personal factors might influence induction rate of labour

Scale detects drug overuse in people with chronic headache

HPV vaccines could prevent many cases of penile cancer

Shoe inserts can reduce serious pain in runners

‘Staffing levels dictate what i do’

Give us the resources to lead

Jo Carlowe, Adele Waters

Time to decide how to deliver older people’s care – and who will fund it

Reports highlight drug errors in residential care homes

Doctors want limit to nurse prescribing

Psychometric tests may be used to recruit staff and students

Potential NHS whistleblowers are being paid off, charity claims

Richard Staines, Bill Doult

Hepatitis support club launched at hospital

Deaf student signs on to register

Nursing needs an urgent image overhaul to attract more men

Erin Dean

News in brief

Cameras aim to deter attacks on nurses

RCN survey reveals discrimination persists towards BME staff

Narrowed pay gap could erode differences in bands, says RCN

On-call rules decision has to be delayed

Colleagues in a lather for a worthy cause

Your views on public pay freeze

Unions warn of workforce crisis if osborne imposes wage freeze

Tamsin Snow

Margaret haywood ‘delighted’ as ban is overturned

Welsh assembly goes it alone on regulation of support workers

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Leave pay to the experts

Graham Scott