A united front

Julie Smith, Elaine Headley

Charity post offers challenging variety

Noticeboard

Honouring leaders of care

Joan Myers

Analyse the evidence

Leslie Gelling

Escherichia coli infections

Lorraine Drinan

Diagnosis and management of patients with COPD in primary care

David Lynes

Artificial humidification for the mechanically ventilated patient

Nelson Selvaraj

Patient-controlled analgesia infusion pumps for adults

Gillian Chumbley, Laura Mountford

Connie Hunston 1920-2010 ward sister and Lay Preacher

Laurence Dopson

Hunston, Connie

Laurence Dopson

Politicians were far from honest about scale of cuts

Kelvin Karim

Mentor-student relationship is one of mutual learning

Laura Ellison

We need to treat people with their diversity in mind

Zeba Arif

Patients benefit if clinicians believe them about their pain

Bethann Siviter

Staff need to observe at all times, not ‘every four hours’

Maggie Tatham

‘damaged’ nurses require support and not exclusion

Michael Fowell

Lace caps for senior nurses send an unmistakable message to male staff

Shane Lawson

Kidney Patient Guide

Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Implications for People with Learning Disabilities

Denise Shanahan

Making Sense of the ECG – Cases for Self-Assessment

Chrissie Spiers

Sharing Assessment in Health and Social Care – A Practical Handbook for Interprofessional Working

Benn Mott

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

Margaret Paul

Starting out - Placement made me determined to be a strong patient advocate

Workforce

James Buchan

Readers panel - Return of the white coat

Scott Justice, Jane Brown, Esther Tanton, Sue Szcezepanska

OutsideIn - Delays to coroners’ inquests cause distress, writes David Newnham

David Newnham

Action long overdue

June Andrews

Voices-Health inequality statistics reinforce the necessity for legislation

Elizabeth Anionwu

Powers of observation

Alison Handley

Webwise

Susan Watkins

Collaboration

Jane Bates

Plan in a pack

Jenny Knight

Promoting innovation

Jenny Knight

Resigned to quitting

Robert Munro

Diversity of fruit and vegetable consumption reduces lung cancer

Cognitive stimulation delays dementia but later decline is faster

Chance of developing colorectal cancer reduced by aspirin

Physical tests can indicate mortality risk in older people

As winter looms, staff get ready for seasonal surge in demand

‘The NHS has learnt nothing from mid staffs debacle’

Mid staffs prepares for media onslaught on eve of next inquiry

Jennifer Sprinks

Car expenses system to be simplified

Patient access to records may create more work for nurses

Diaries improve communication in consultations

News in brief

Protection of health visitor title ‘unlikely’

Fast-track course for generic postgraduate degrees evaluated

Minister hears of staff burnout as caseloads soar

Thousands of health visitor posts will be created, government says

Petra Kendall-Raynor

New top team take the helm

RCN chiefs ‘disappointed’ by narrow defeat on rule change

Erin Dean

MPs slam plans for GPs to take over spending

College brands ‘efficiency savings’ short sighted and unsustainable

Guidance on suicide by December

Take-home pay to fall as osborne raises nurse pension contributions

Jennifer Sprinks

Check against delivery

Graham Scott