Inspiring stories

Sidone Chifulya

International learning curve

Sally Gillen

Notice board

Role sparked new interest for me

Mark Sephton

Clearing the language barrier

Yenna Salamonson

Obesity risk

Ebony Kunze

Managing women with ovarian cancer: the role of the nurse

Lisa Clarke, Catherine Bailey

Inhaled bronchodilators for chronic bronchitis and emphysema

Gerri Kaufman

Prescribing in type 2 diabetes: choices and challenges

Jill Hill

An overview of pharmacology and acute pain: part two

Felicia Cox

Bill Millin 1922-2010 Senior nursing officer and veteran of D-Day

Laurence Dopson

Florence nightingale’s book is as relevant today

Francis Biley

Nursing and midwifery panels need nursing input

David Harding-Price

Specialist practice is advanced in skill and context

Alison Leary

Clinical judgement based on evidence and understanding

Niki Fulstow

The idea of nursing as a vocation has long gone

Zeba Arif

First impressions determine patients’ satisfaction with treatment and care

Pauline Okposi

Circular lesions turned out to be more than ringworm

Felicity Stockwell website

Practice Teaching in Healthcare

Bev Al-Azzawi

Numeracy in Nursing and Healthcare – Calculations and Practice

Susan Carlisle

The Value of Difference – Eliminating Bias in Organisations

Joan Myers

Starting out - Reaching out techniques helped grieving relative to open up

Phil Barlow

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

Margaret Paul

Webwise

Roger Evans

PM’s commission findings should not be forgotten

Catherine Gleeson

Readers panel - Rings the changes

Roger Cowell, Carol Singleton, Candice Pellett, Jane Brown

Let down

Jane Bates

Outside in

David Newnham

A powerful appeal

Voices - This year’s World Mental Health Day has a message for all nurses, says Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Happier endings

Jenny Knight

Overcoming resistance

Kate Redway

A model of altruism

Alison Whyte

Mentor for success

Jenny Knight

South Asian men have increasing rates of lung cancer

Older women are more likely to have unexplained symptoms

Squint sets children apart from an early age

Ductal breast cancer not related to women’s intake of alcohol

‘Our trust has achieved a culture that allows all staff to flourish’

DH director aims to boost winter flu jab uptake among health staff

Manifesto calls for staff mix to continue

Campaigners fight against spending cuts

Nurse’s hopes for world transplant games

White paper plans for PCTs a ‘scandalous political experiment’

Bill Doult

Dementia care needs national standards

New in brief

CQC lifts conditions at troubled trust

Nurse prescribers boost patient wellbeing and satisfaction levels

Jennifer Sprinks

Matrons cut medicines use by care home residents

Primary care placements extended after students hail them a success

Petra Kendall-Raynor

New role will strive to change culture

RCN Concern over trust’s A&E closure

Suspended mid staffs employees return to work

Nurse specialists unhappy about being ordered back to the wards

Nurse who was shot campaigns to keep children on track

RCN demands top table role for nurses in primary care shake-up

Erin Dean

A celebration of diversity

Laura Serrant-Green