Time for a reality check

Pamela Baxter

Notice board

Improvement through inspection

Sidone Chilufya

Mentoring the mentors

Kathleen Duffy

Caring for frail patients: best practice

Carolyn Wallace, Lynda Chandler, Audrey Rogers, Kate Crosby, Nimisha Joshi, Tanya Spriggs, Chris Hill

Cellulitis

Loraine Lindus

Recording violent incidents in the emergency department

Terence Ferns

Implementing structured preceptorship in an acute hospital

Andrea Morgan, Judy Mattison, Michael Stephens, Suzanne Medows

Graham-Paul, Shirley

Laurence Dopson

Being bipolar, my ‘fix’ is a legal drug that helps ease the stress

George Cowley

Mental health students should be taught basic procedures

Simon Nielson

Japan’s earthquake highlighted need for more medical personnel

Evan Felongco

Holby City nurses need to take note of ‘bare below the elbows’

Tina Teese

Give us the facts and figures on our pension contributions

Malcolm Harrison

The independent and voluntary sectors offer satisfying jobs

Karen Smith

We could end up paying more for less if healthcare services start competing

Jane Thomas

House of Lords Appointments Commission

Roger Evans

Living With Bipolar Disorder – A Guide for Individuals and Families

Peter Barraclough

James young Simpson – Lad o Pairts

Laurence Dopson

Mental health and care homes

Elizabeth Williams

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

Margaret Paul

Readers panel - Sending out an unhealthy message

Jane Brown, Moyra Baldwin, Jane Scullion, Paul Jebb

Patient’s notes gave me a clearer insight into his difficult behaviour

Charlotte Hatfield

Cuts were avoidable

Josie Irwin

Food for thought

Not all glamour

Shame on us

In her final Voices column, Chris Beasley recommends nursing as a career

‘We were feeding a regulatory beast’

A humbling experience

Thelma Agnew

Scarred for life

Sue Learner

Evidence — better staffed wards are safer

Keith Hurst

Higher staffing levels reduce falls rate

Keith Hurst

Getting safe staffing levels

Strategic thinking

Adele Waters

Women undergoing planned caesarean section less likely to require a blood transfusion

Increased risk of poor health in people who moved house regularly during childhood

Access to kidney transplant is lower in black American patients than white patients

Positive effect of cognitive stimulation on cognitive performance is confirmed

Exercise can benefit people who have been treated for cancer

Focus on positive experiences proves uplifting for hospital staff

Regulator jettisons HCA work to concentrate on fitness to practise

Jennifer Sprinks

Registrants invited to air views on equality strategy

Political notebook 14.03.12

CQC warns trust over patient dignity and quality of care

World in brief

News in brief

RCN and academics condemn cuts to nurse training places

Another Mid Staffs crisis is brewing, warns former chair

Strictly exercising for the over-fifties

Trust funds nurses’ top-up degrees in bid to win award for excellence

Sally Gillen

Midwife who concealed hepatitis C infects patient

Leadership is more important than staffing levels, says Lansley

Tamsin Snow

Union members to have final say on pension reforms

Young people say they want male school nurses

Trust rewrites 300 job descriptions to help develop academic clinical careers

Union leaders rally protesters

RCN calls for national care homes guidance as staff report failings

Tamsin Snow

Many private providers exemplify bill’s pitfalls

Graham Scott