Rewards for role models

Frances Colbron

On the move

Acting on feedback

Lisa Bayliss-Pratt

Noticeboard

Who has got you covered?

Jenny Knight

Healthy ageing

Amanda Gower

Skill analysis part 2: evaluating a practice skill

Bob Price

Why assisted suicide must remain illegal in the UK

Vicky Robinson, Helen Scott

Exploring the case for assisted dying in the UK

Carol Haigh

Heath, Helen

Laurence Dopson

Religion has no place in an evidence-based profession

Jon Young

Ticked off with auditing and measuring instead of caring

Michelle Biggins

Targets are driving us away from the patient’s bedside

Nancy Bell

Use fat tax proceeds to cut cost of healthy foods for poorest

Dan Taylor

University deputy dean would make fine addition to the Lords

Karen Sanders

Ratio of dependent patients to nurses makes job much harder

Staff numbers must increase to achieve care campaign’s goals

Patricia Wilson

Government is just protecting the richest with regional pay variations

Craig Hopkins

Group and Individual Work with Older People – A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes

Peter Barraclough

Primary Care and Laboratory Medicine – Frequently Asked Questions

Carol Singleton

Moving and Handling People – An Illustrated Guide

Heather Dale

Readers panel-Time for drivers to take a final puff

Esther Tanton, Jane Brown, Moyra Baldwin, Julie Clarke

Webwise

Rebecca Penzer

Placement on the piste showed me that fulfillment can follow a fall

Michelle Drew

Starting out - Placement on the piste showed me that fulfilment can follow a fall

Michelle Drew

Embedded kindness

Stephen Smith

Bad press

The sick trick

Hard to reach

The new year will see a formidable pairing of nurse roles

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

Margaret Paul

A business to build

Emotional abuse by a partner has as strong a link to postnatal depression as physical abuse

School support, dietary and exercise interventions help maintain healthy weight

Transplant patients are reluctant to accept higher risk organs and are prepared to wait

Probiotics may help people with traumatic brain injury combat risk of infection

Non-pharmacological interventions could provide mental boost

Poor quality care blamed on workload

Give us the right number and mix of staff to drive up care standards

Survey results

Adele Waters

Compassion in a time of crisis

Sue Learner

The staff banking on regular work

Storm clouds ahead

Daloni Carlisle

World in brief

Honours list recognises key work of healthcare staff

Political notebook 04.01.12

Olympic torch passes to Elin

Injured nurses told they are fit to work after 15-minute assessments

Petra Kendall-Raynor

Seat in Lords could be reserved for healthcare worker

Unions back peer’s latest attempt to get support workers regulated

News in brief

RCN calls for care home employees to be trained

GPs forcing nurses to take out personal indemnity cover

Scheme targets earlier diagnosis

Unions discuss next move after government’s ‘final’ pension offer

Tamsin Snow

NMC concludes decade-long misconduct case

Rise in number of cancelled operations

Public health nursing receives a new champion to drive change

Evidence base for final scene

Nurses give themselves seven out of ten for quality of care

Christian Duffin, Adele Waters

Without the resources, quality will suffer

Graham Scott