All part of the process

Leslie Gelling

Notice board

Putting complaints in context

Sally Gillen

Making the most of your money

Teri Harman

Change of perspective

Benny Goodman

Reducing catheterisation risks

Jane Allan

Delirium: prevention, clinical features and management

Emma Ouldred, Catherine Bryant

Patients’ lived experience of myeloma

Mary Kelly, Maura Dowling

Dignity, humanity and equality: Principle of Nursing Practice A

Ann Jackson, Wendy Irwin

Bladder washouts and their use in the removal of debris

Suzanne Shaw

Competence framework for treating sickle cell disease

Elizabeth Anionwu

Protecting children from the effects of domestic violence

Amanda Norman

Finding a place in the RCN for senior healthcare assistants

Still waiting for a response on future of nursing report

Sue Bernhauser, Jane Salvage

Smart working in the field of international assistance

Fiona Pilkington

Choice and fairness are key to end of life care

Carol Singleton

We need to raise awareness about female fertility before it is too late

Jane Denton

Webwise

Christopher Humm

Bells Palsy Association

Christopher Humm

The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships – Second edition

Stephen Weeks

Occupational Health Law – Fifth edition

Bashyr Aziz

Mental Health Nursing Skills

Jane Ross

OutsideIn

David Newnham

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

Margaret Paul

‘Food is my heroin and it is killing me’

Anne Diamond

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Constantcriticismmademe miserable– then it all changed

AC Silva

Readers panel - paying the price for alcohol

Mandy Allison, Scott Justice, Mike Lehane, Janet Smith

Time for ministers to rethink the cervical cancer vaccine

Kathy French

Keeping an open heart in hell

Stephen Wright

Voices

Elizabeth Anionwu

Plain English

Nurses should examine their practice in light of the ombudsman’s report

Rising from the ruins

Brian Dolan

Scaling the peaks

Robert Munro

An African experience

Hilary Fenton-Harris, Vivien Maiden

Children, especially girls, become less active by age nine

Stress of breast cancer can persist for more than one year

Permanent cosmetic eyebrows carry risks of serious infection

Body scent may aid effective colorectal cancer screening

Has nursing quality improved in the past quarter of a century?

Keith Hurst

Reducing mileage rate is ‘a devious way to save money’

Job cuts, restructuring, mergers and closures leave staff fearful

Kevin Austerberry

Nurse denied accelerated pay progression awarded £10,000

Take responsibility for safe staff levels, carter tells government

Erin Dean

Guidance on age equality published

Traffic-light email system aims to tackle attrition

Midwives lobby for improved maternal care

News in brief

111 pilot region sees fall in A&E users

Survey reveals value of multiple sclerosis specialists

Rayner bursary winner named

Jump in EU nurse registrants after entry requirements relaxed

Erin Dean

Report highlights ‘suffering’ of older patients in wales

Working more for less pension could drive dedicated staff away

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Support for japanese colleagues

The government should not dictate who is on GP consortia boards, argues Lansley

Intensive nursing care halves the number of pressure ulcers

Clinicians ‘cut off’ from patients in a bid to survive

Gallery draws in funds for seacole

Nursing Standard research spurs U-turn over midwifery training

Tamsin Snow

Give everyone a fair deal

Graham Scott