Support for those at sea

Simon Murfin

Student life - Paper trail of evidence

Anji Waring

Vital signs

Gemma Findlay

Hepatitis C virus infection: risk factors, diagnosis and management

Esther Pears

Discussing sexuality with patients in a motor neurone disease clinic

Rachael Marsden, Rachel Botell

Use of ketamine in uncontrolled acute and procedural pain

Gillian Chumbley

Nursing honour society is keen to spread its message

Dame June Clark

Addressing the challenges of patient confidentiality

Gary Jones

The coalition should beware of creating a regional divide

Bashyr Aziz

The ‘business’ of health care should be fairly rewarded

David Harding-Price

Minimum nurse-patient ratios would safeguard standards

Joyce Robins

Treat patients as individuals, no matter how frustrating

Richard Wilson

Safety concerns should be raised with line managers

Martin Bradley

Fear of blowing the whistle is a terrible blight on the health service

Niamh Coghlan

Caring profession has no place for hit and run tactics

Gordon Lees

The Skilled Helper – International Edition (9th)

Charlie Sloan

Enriched Care Planning for People with Dementia

Gary Blatch

Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay

James Buchan

Case Histories

Dame Chris Beasley

Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents

Stephen Wright

Boys don’t cry: What if you were left holding the baby?

Elizabeth Anionwu

Three Cups of Tea

Zeba Arif

Shakespeare: The world as a stage

Rosemary Cook

According to Queeney

Jane Bates

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

Jan Halstead

Enduring Love

David Newnham

‘We know what patients need’

All kinds of voices

Sue Cumming

Notice board

Stand and deliver

John Illman

The best of the holidays health-related TV and Radio

Margaret Paul

Freedom to innovate

Webwise

Sam Chenery-Morris

The power of yes: a dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis

Jean Gray

Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime

Peter Carter

Starting out - young offenders helped my professional development

Helen Bibby

Factor Christmas into weight loss programmes

Jan Halstead

Readers panel - The worth of wellbeing

Alison Crumbie, Bríd Hehir, Steve Flatt, Kate Tantam

Public spirits

Jane Bates

Disaster is just around the corner

Rosemary Cook

Voices - 2010 has been a year for refining how the regulator works, writes tony hazell

Tony Hazell

Outside in

David Newnham

Going green to improve people’s health

Ardent campaigners

Alison Whyte

UK adolescent girls have higher rates of drunkenness than boys

Infant transplants increase despite fall in suitable donors

Assisted reproduction increases the chance of cerebral palsy

Lifestyle factors may reduce risk of colorectal cancer

Scramble to protect front line care as funding cuts advance

Eating disorders ‘starting younger’

Openness about cutbacks is vital for patient safety

Screening for potential teen pregnancies

Pressing his case for the Olympics

Unprecedented number of new nurses out of work in Scotland

Erin Dean

News In brief

Charity calls for staff training on carer role

Serious shortage of nurses employed by the armed forces

‘Empowerment is the solution to workplace bullying’

Wards urged to adopt successful productive ward scheme quickly

Petra Kendall-Raynor

University nursing programmes at risk of closure, lecturers claim

Jennifer Sprinks

Staff admit ‘serious issues’ with care standards

NMC pension fund to focus on ethical investments

Concern for piloting of GP consortia

Nurses urged to liaise with hostel teams to improve palliative care for homeless people

Unions raise alarm over trusts’ plans to impose local pay deals

Erin Dean

Different slant to christmas message

A time for mutual support

graham Scott