Make a note of this

Nicola Davies

Notice board

Raising the standards of quality and safety

Radhika Holmström

MSc Adult Nursing with registration/MSc Mental Health Nursing with registration

The shelf life of libraries

Benny Goodman

Diuretic therapy

Amanda Tarrington

Promoting mental health in older people admitted to hospitals

Bernie Keenan, Catharine Jenkins, Louise Denner, Margaret Harries, Kay Fawcett, Lisa Magill, Sue Atkins, Juliet Miller

Use of peer teaching to enhance student and patient education

Robert Priharjo, Georgina Hoy

Chronic pelvic pain: causes, mechanisms and effects

Julia Cambitzi

Thornburn, Dora

Laurence Dopson

Cancer survivorship project offers people help and hope

Dame Gill Oliver

An erudite article on the prevention of infection

Juliette Cosgrove

Screening emergency admissions for MRSA

Carol Pellowe

Work-related allergies can be controlled and prevented

Sue Cross

Telephone counselling helps smokers to quit

Jennifer Percival

Flexible model of work-based learning boosts development

Elisabeth Clark

Ministers have a cheek to say nurses should be grateful for NHS salaries

Lorraine Scaife

FRAX

Kathy Abernethy

Leading Under Pressure – From Surviving to Thriving Before, During, and After a Crisis

Jane Brown

Scissors, Nurse, Scissors – The Diary of a Student Nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London 1959-1962

Catharine Sadler

Blood Sugar Beat – Diabetes from the Inside Out

Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi

Webwise

Kathy Abernethy

Starting out passing on a loving message was a huge responsibility

Jenni Clark

Why I have to keep my head down at the hairdressers

Jan Halstead

In a stew

Jane Bates

Outsidein

David Newnham

Reaching out to black women

Marina Raime, Abi Ajose-Adeogun

Voices - Patients swamped by information need help, says Rosemary Cook

Rosemary Cook

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

Margaret Paul

Readers panel - Public health on the market

Jessica Streeting, Alison Crumbie, Linda Drake, Bríd Hehir

Age-appropriate care

Sue Cox

Super educators

Jackie Cosh

Brighter prospects

Anita Pati

Fast-track to efficiency

Alison Handley

Former smokers still at risk of hearing loss from others’ smoke

Legislative control of mephedrone may be harmful to health

Women with chance of familial cancer likely to benefit from screening

Binge drinking increases risk of ischaemic heart disease

Where in England do older people feel most vulnerable?

Keith Hurst

Cuts to health services leaves region’s staff at breaking point

Space nursing – the final frontier

Bank staff could take calculation tests to curb medication errors

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Prepare for equality law, trusts told

Frustration over delays in controlled medicines law

Call for standardised care protocol for patients experiencing pain

News In brief

Mid Staffs’ standards still cause for concern

Dig deeper to spot depression in male patients

GPs and managers agree nurses must have say in commissioning

Tamsin Snow

Care packages for people with stroke ‘often in disarray’

Clinical specialists are essential if cancer strategy is to succeed

Tamsin Snow

New class of haitian nurses graduates

RCM refutes baby weaning research

Fresh call for staff to be immunised against flu

Changes to NHS are ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous’

Was the unions’ decision right? we asked nurses their opinion

Employers threaten job cuts after unions stand firm on pay

Petra Kendall-Raynor

A cause for celebration

Graham Scott