Student life - Safety is a team effort

Deborah Clark, Nick White, Wayne Robson

Student life - My learning curve

Joanna Martin

Notice board

Fun way to learn for mentors

Joanne Hirdle, Belinda Humphries

On the move

How to sell yourself

Daniel Allen

Bone disease

Brenda Chivima

Promoting sexual health and wellbeing: the role of the nurse

David Thomas Evans

A critical analysis of Compassion in Practice

Belinda Dewar, Yvonne Christley

Tailoring genetic/genomic services and information to the individual

Tara Clancy, Rhian Morgan

Tweets of the week

Let’s make sure that diversity doesn’t drop off the agenda

Greg Usrey

GPs don’t offer exercise options to patients with osteoarthritis

Paula Duckworth

Our family is grateful for what the LCP meant for my late wife

John D Bland

Child protection concerns have been taken too far

Abigail Lawrence

Help me find Julie Probert, who once worked at Gwent Hospital

Sally Keene

Clinical trials are vital to develop new treatments

Nicola Fulstow

A person is not just a bed number so staff should call patients by name

Donato Tallo

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

Margaret Paul

Medical History Education for Health Practitioners

John Adams

Kidney Disease Management – A Practical Approach for the Non-Specialist Healthcare Practitioner

Susan Watkins

British Skin Foundation

Rebecca Davis

Divisions over NHS pay

James Buchan

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Starting out - Analysing a patient’s individual needs is a vital nursing skill

Lucy Carr

Priceless legacy

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Packing in the easier buy

Jane Scullion, Craig Hopkins, Grant Byrne, Elsie Gayle

Flu bugbear

David Newnham

Voices - Woolly jumper advice is the tip of the energy price iceberg, says Jean Gray

Jean Gray

Habit forming

Jane Bates

Medical manoeuvres

Sergeant Rebecca Warren

It pays to exercise

Mary-Claire Mason

A patients’ champion

Lynne Pearce

Is early diagnosis best?

Jennifer Trueland

Depression in young people

Psychological intervention in hospital can protect against further coronary events

Extremes of BMI raise east Asians’ chances of death from cardiovascular disease

Mutual support among people bereaved by suicide linked to higher risk of complicated grief

‘Good bacteria’ ineffective in treating antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in older patients

Pessimistic outlook can lead to binge drinking in expectant women

All NHS staff to be handed a role in dealing with patient complaints

Kat Keogh

Political notebook

Trusts fail to provide on-site laundries, our survey finds

World in brief

Charity pops up to advise public

Report praises nurses’ A&E role but calls for increase in resources

Jennifer Sprinks

Revised bowel disease standards tackle inconsistencies in care

Jennifer Sprinks

Please tell us your concerns

News in brief

Lack of diabetes nurses may mean patients miss checks

Post-op infection advice launched

Cash-strapped Barts to lay off and downband hundreds of nurses

Specialists seek to improve pain management skills of all staff

Kat Keogh

MP tables early day motion in hope of safe staffing debate

Sickness rates fall slightly, but remain high

Healthcare staff take vaccination campaign to city shopping centre

Public needs better end of life education

Proposed competency tests for overseas nurses win RCN’s support

Jennifer Sprinks

It is time to remember the heroism of nurses

Graham Scott