Mission possible

Marilyn Boggust

Leadership in a time of change

Trish Morris-Thompson

Notice board

Seeing the bigger picture

Katrina Whittingham

A view from the inside

Sharon Palfrey

Hyperglycaemia

Caroline Mitford

Acute coronary syndrome: diagnosis, risk assessment and management

Kathy Marshall

A Danish approach to mentorship and education of nursing students

Neil Davison, Katherine Williams

Developing careers in neonatal nursing to meet service demands

Jenny Pinfield, Theresa Pengelly, Joanne Rouse, Mary Passant

dos Santos, Izabel

‘slippery slope’ argument needs to be challenged

Gay Lee

I did not enter nursing to administer lethal injections

Suzan Ekrem

The commission and its role in the assisted dying debate

Celia Manson

Handwashing may be in peril of replacement by wiping

Michelle Biggins

Education and practice have equal roles in patient care

Colin Rees

The best way to cut NHS costs is to avoid change for change’s sake

Stephen Weeks

Loss of centre of excellence would be a monumental error

Catherine Martindale, Sherington, Wigan

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Mike Jackson

Living and Dying Well

Mike Jackson

Cervical Cancer – The Essential Guide

Greta McGough

Teach Us to Sit Still – A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing

Bríd Hehir

Like So Totally

Peter Barraclough

Hospital

Paul Jebb, Mandy Allison, Scott Justice, Sue Szczepanska

Workforce

James Buchan

Starting out - Young mother reminded me to keep my prejudices in check

Genna Lowry

Prune power

Jane Bates

Make a meal of ward visiting time

Irene Heywood Jones

Voices - the regulator is meeting the needs of welsh speakers, says Tony Hazell

Tony Hazell

OutsideIn

David Newnham

Transforming bedside care

‘I take mentoring of students seriously’

A lifeline for carers

Caroline Swinburne

A friend in deed

Catharine Sadler

A pivotal position

Alison Whyte

BMI can be linked to complications during mechanical ventilation

Metformin may assist in chemoprevention of breast cancer

Consuming less salt might reduce the risk of gastric cancer

IVF couples given greater insight into likely outcomes

North london a&e unit to be closed

Fallout from primary care reform, is key fear for leaders in the capital

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Musical enacts profession in wartime

Commons invites written evidence on likely impact of new health bill

Wales set to scrap a&e targets

Bureaucracy created by means tests is ‘stressful and confusing’

Jennifer Sprinks

Rcn: social care shake-up is too hasty

Finalists for 2011 nurse of the year awards revealed

News in brief

Nurses’ skills to be assessed as focus shifts to early intervention

Petra Kendall-Raynor, Tamsin Snow

Slump in calls to health advice line

RCN cleared of treating election candidate unfairly

Shortages compromise patient safety, say staff on the front line

Erin Dean

NHS workers in wales to get pay rises

College calls on trust to agree minimum of one sister per ward

Letter of support for Egyptian health workers

Nurse wins appeal over‘lewd’ remark

Savage cuts to student numbers leave lecturers facing job losses

Tamsin Snow

Drop in midwifery training places ‘extremely worrying’

The price of mental health

Graham Scott