Vital support that pays off

Kathy Oxtoby

A taste of life in the upper house

Frances Pickersgill

Take a seat at the top

Helen Gilbert

Needlestick and sharps injuries: practice update

Debra Adams

Triage

Lindsey Pearson

Improving palliative care for patients with COPD

Karen Iley

Conditions affecting the foreskin

David Hunter

Seems impractical to pay people to become healthier

Sally Anne Major

Staff caring for my mother came across as cold and uncaring

Stephen Weeks

The end of life care my mother received was outstanding

Zeba Arif

Student who supported grieving parents is a credit to nursing

Sue Henson

High cost of fitness to practise hearings should be scrutinised

Malcolm Harrison

Student who supported grieving parents is a credit to nursing

Sue Henson

Are we medicalising normal conditions such as anxiety?

David Lee

Concentrate on basic nursing care before extended skills

Tina Fairhead

St Thomas’ hospital is the wrong site for Mary Seacole statue

Lynn McDonald

Nightingale’s emphasis on patient observation provides valuable lessons

Helen Evans

Cavell Nurses’ Trust

Brian Burke

Power and Movement – Portraits of Britain’s Paralympic Athletes

Michael Fowell

Breast Cancer Nursing: Care and Management – Second edition

Paula Gawthorpe

The Body

Catharine Sadler

Lung cancer campaign targets late diagnosis

Julia Frater

Time spent with a community nurse helped clarify my career goals

Caroline Davenport

Bedazzled

Cliché rage

The power to lead

Elizabeth Robb

Investment in community nursing services is vital

A brighter future?

Alison Moore

The hazards of caring

Notice board

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

Margaret Paul

Readers panel - A matter of academic record

Sue Sczepanska, Shona MacLean, Paul Jebb, Julie Clarke

‘We have been able to raise the profile of what nurses do’

See the bigger picture

Erin Dean

Greek nurses reach

Jasmine Malone

Sleeping too little increases likelihood of obesity, but too much sleep is also bad for you

Relaxation exercises to soft music shown to cut number of pre-term births

Trend for men to be back in hospital within a month of being discharged

Hispanic patients are more likely to survive lung cancer than caucasians

Living alone makes workers much more prone to depression

Sickle cell and thalassaemia posts are good value and need protecting

Sally Gillen

‘Halving the number of MRSA cases has been a fantastic achievement’

Hundreds of stressed NHS staff apply for early exit scheme

Jennifer Sprinks

Nurse acheivements celebrated

World in brief

Trust backs down on band 4 role offer

Wanted: two high-flyers keen for a ‘large, complex’ challenge

Pension proposals spark industrial action

Inadequate social care funding is compromising community nursing

Sally Gillen

Increase in nurse peers depends on Lords reform

Scotland clarifies effect of integration on employment

News in brief

Overflowing: hospitals struggle to cope with patient numbers

College will fight on over change to pension age

Community nurse numbers ‘stretched to breaking point’

RCN head lambasts ‘destructive’ cuts

Coalition government on track to shrink NHS workforce by 61,000

Tamsin Snow, Jennifer Sprinks

Congress gives overwhelming vote of no confidence in health secretary

Tamsin Snow

Lansley wins respect but few friends at congress

Graham Scott