Sustained performance

Ruth Spellman

More equal than ever

Notice board

Beyond black and white

Radhika Holmström

Student life - Get a head for maths

Miriam McMullan

Self-management of incurable conditions

Lucy Ward

Self-management skills for people with type 2 diabetes

Debbie Hicks

Management of diabetes in patients at the end of life

Pauline Budge

Neuropathic pain: clinical features, assessment and treatment

Claire Fear

Dookhantee, Maya

Karen Barrett

My dad is a school nurse, and in my eyes he is a hero

Elizabeth Watson

Website offers insights into work of bme district nurses

Matthew Bradby

Clinicians should lobby mps over white paper proposals

Martin Rathfelder

Chance to practise in the community may elude many

Yes care can fall short, but most nurses do their utmost

Carolyn Butler

Hand hygiene guidance works best when it can be adapted to local needs

Dinah Gould

Fair Society Healthy Lives

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

Margaret Paul

Physical Health and Well Being in Mental Health Nursing – Clinical Skills for Practice

Tim Grace

Developing Practical Skills for Nursing Children and Young People

Jayne Steer

The Care and Wellbeing of Older People – A Textbook for Health Care Students

Patricia McCollum

Webwise

Monica Haggart

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

RCN members will unite to protect their pensions

Peter Carter

Picture this

Jane Bates

Desire for nuggets overwhelms the grim reality

Anne Diamond

Readers panel - Full college rights for HCAs

Mike Lehane, Julie Clarke, Moyra Baldwin, Moyra Baldwin

Starting out if only we could have let the patient pass away peacefully

Carley Vaudrey

David Newnham side of long-life

David Newnham

Cuts in spending will hit the poor hardest

Stephen Wright

Voices - rosemary cook says key community services must keep their funding

Rosemary Cook

The best job of all

Old drugs, new tricks?

Tina Walsh

Crossed lines over NHS 111

Catharine Sadler

Neurological damage is ruled out in children resuscitated at birth

Time spent watching television is a risk factor for mortality

High CD4 count not protective in people with HIV infection

Women beer drinkers more likely to develop psoriasis

Trust appoints nurse ombudsman to address patient safety concerns

Clinicians fear reforms will make them ‘rationers’ of care

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Trial of ankle bracelet tracking system shows early promise

Trusts told to report E.COLI infections

Work visa cap may exacerbate staff shortages, say employers

Milton: why not email patient notes?

CNO forms watchdog group to track changes in commissioning

Bill Doult, Petra Kendall-Raynor

Review of ward documentation puts focus back on nursing care

Erin Dean

Treatment summaries alert clinicians to sepsis risk

News in brief

Regular checks cut fall rates

Red card system identifies shifts that need extra cover

Recruitment database set up for workers at risk of redundancy

Advisory role for nurses on dementia drugs

Drug watch scheme reduces antibiotic use

Shift changes pile pressure on staff

Primary care faces three years of chaos, top NHS boss predicts

Petra Kendall-Raynor

‘We hoped for secure retirement’

Health unions prepare for battle to defend nurses’ pension rights

Erin Dean

Bridging the gender gap

Graham Scott