Learning by association

Rachel Harrison

Rotation programme offers a greater insight into diabetes care

Michelle Knapper

Notice board

To work or not to work

Kathy Oxtoby

Make new connections

Jane Redfern Jones

Assessment and treatment of patients with anxiety

Amanda McGrandles, Tim Duffy

Temporary tracheostomy

Katherine Curley

Type 2 diabetes in south Asian people

Paula Holt

Clinical human factors: the need to speak up to improve patient safety

Jane Reid, Martin Bromiley

Brown, Elizabeth

Laurence Dopson

Clarification

Dame June Clark

Screen patients and residents for malnutrition on admission

Brigid McKevith

Cutbacks have put social care systems under extreme pressure

Paula Duckworth

Patient feedback could play a part in make nurse recruitment

Dan Taylor

Questions remain unanswered after broadcast of care abuse

Pauline Cameron

Investment in staff wellbeing can make all the difference

Gareth Thomas

Teach all students phlebotomy, cannulation, ecg and iv skills

Nichola McCarthy

Newly qualified nurses need time and support to help them settle in

Helen Jones

Cancer Research UK

Sheila Cunningham

Principles of Safeguarding and Protection for Learning Disability Workers

Gillian James

Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports

Ian Birkinshaw

Lives Remembered: Telling the Stories of Older People – The third anthology

Greta McGough

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

Margaret Paul

Workforce

James Buchan

I spoke out when I felt a patient’s dignity was not being respected

Jayne Parker

Kidney donors’ welfare should come before targets

Fiona Biggins

Readers panel - Will financial incentives motivate people to adopt healthy behaviours?

Elsie Gayle, Craig Hopkins, Stephanie Cumming, Jane Scullion

Medicines management 2-5-2012

Matt Griffiths

Animal magic

A symbol of support

Carol Singleton

Nurses Day keeps getting bigger and stronger, discovers Jean Gray

Name shame

The game changer

Leading by example

Clare Lomas

Learning on the job

Erin Dean

The most effective pain relief during labour also has the worst side effects

Emergency call handlers display signs of emotional distress and risk of PTSD

Exposure to trauma in early childhood may inhibit intellectual development

Increased risk of type 2 diabetes linked to high consumption of white rice

Increased risk of copd for adults who inhaled smoke as children

Expert panel seeks consensus on how to prepare tomorrow’s nurses

Christian Duffin

Political notebook 2-5-2012

Union branches urged to unite in defence of Agenda for Change

World in brief

Fight against NHS reforms will go on

Eradicating NHS blame culture will improve safety, nurses argue

Learning disability care services ‘are heading towards a timebomb’

Children’s nurse receives royal seal of approval

News in brief

Government forum seeks staff opinions

Lords appointment system may disadvantage nurses

End of life care study commended

Call for change in Department of Health policy on circumcision

Australian staff report high level of verbal abuse

Moonlighting rife in South Africa

Academic opinion divided on whether care can be measured

Sally Gillen

Council gives go-ahead for Seacole statue

Research shows support staff are taken for granted by employers

Jennifer Sprinks

We need more learning disabilities specialists

Graham Scott