Flagging up differences

Notice board

The partnership that works

Bethann Siviter

The gold standard

Pre-operative assessment

Joanne Hardy

Understanding quantitative research: part 1

Juanita Hoe, Zoë Hoare

Tweets of the week

Cardiovascular exercise helps to empower people with cancer

Marion Foreman

Nurses can only do so much, no matter how fast they run

Ruth Sander

Working to eradicate avoidable grade 2, 3 and 4 pressure ulcers

Michelle Porter

Target individual risk behaviour rather than particular groups

Verity Thorne

New guidance on awareness and testing for hepatitis b and c

James Windsor

Lung cancer has always been the ‘poor relation’ of cancers

Paula Gawthorpe

Supervisory status for ward sisters helps to improve the care of patients

Carol France, Kathryn Halford

Webwise

Holly Howe Watson

Contemporary health studies – An introduction

Paul Jebb

Discord - the story of noise

Roger Evans

Yes Sister, No Sister

Viv Bennett

A Fine Balance

Zeba Arif

50 Shades of grey

Yvonne Coghill

My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

Jean Gray

The Living Mountain

James Buchan

The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

David Newnham

CHAVS: the demonisation of the working class

Stephen Wright

William Wilberforce

William Hague, Jane Bates

Never Again? The Story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 By Nicholas Timmins

Nicholas Timmins, Peter Carter

‘My daughter’s care was wonderful’

Christmas soaps – holby city and doctors

The best of the holiday’s health related TV and radio

nurse Margaret Paul

My father taught me understanding and compassion

Dayasara Martin Hillary

Getting the message across

Paul Jebb, Elsie Gayle, Sue Szczepanska, Jane Brown

Starting out - Enjoying an activity with a patient getting gave me time to see the person inside

Karen Dowden

The bowl truth

David Newnham

Ward awake

Jane Bates

Model of quality care

Jill Fordham

VOICES-Crystal Oldman urges commissioners to prepare the community workforce

Crystal Oldman

‘We need to combine the technical aspects of nursing with insight and knowledge’

The liverpool care pathway: how it works

The nurses’ champion

Dame Betty Kershaw, Christine Hallett

Stay on the right path

Jennifer Trueland

Freeing minds

Level of fagmentation in sperm DNA can predict success of treatments for infertility

Daily use of multivitamins fails to reduce men’s risk of major cardiovascular events

Laws banning smoking lead to lower incidence of heart attack and cut hospital costs

Mothers’ bipolar disorder is a risk factor for adverse birth outcomes, even if treated

First encounter with the death of a patient leaves lasting effects

Treating paedophiles may prevent harm

A commissioner could keep the NHS accountable

Resources are the bottom line for healthcare quality

Nursing in 2012: an Olympic fight for employment rights

Nurses's heroic deeds dramatised

Audit exposes a lack of progress in addressing problems at NMC

Jennifer Sprinks

Political notebook

500 nurses face redundancy as NHS direct winds down

World in brief

What nursing leaders think about the new approach

England’s CNO unveils strategy to promote compassionate care

Sally Gillen

Learning disability services set to be transformed

Bereaved MP asks Cameron about poor practice

Staff given chance to air their grievances

News in brief

‘patchy’ diabetes awareness prompts call for education

Leadership needed to fight malnutrition

Top nurses gather to remember pioneer

Broadcasters warned about hoax the day before nurse’s tragic death

Sally Gillen

More must be done to alleviate the huge pressure on nurses

Josie Irwin

More must be done to alleviate the huge pressure on nurses

Josie Irwin

‘cartel’ ploughs on with regional pay despite government u-turn

Sally Gillen

Resources are crucial to curing any care malaise

Graham Scott