Student life - Class act in health promotion

Frances Colbron

Destination New Zealand

Prudence Thomson

Notice board

Reconnecting with our instincts

Michael Newsome

A deeper understanding

Karen Elton

Depression

Donato Tallo

Improving end of life care for adults

Eleanor Sherwen

Nervous system: part 2

Charles Hendry, Alistair Farley, Ella McLafferty, Carolyn Johnstone

Intentional rounding: a review of the literature

Carol Forde-Johnston

Colin Carter1963-2013Nurse who loved to study, and was a real ale enthusiast

Mark Bonson

Peter Gilbert1950-2013Professor of social work and spirituality at Staffordshire University has died of motor neurone disease

John Adams

Tweets of the week

Campaigners should be thanked for delay to care.data scheme

David Clarke

Private health insurer has not stopped misleading marketing

Paula Duckworth

Give some of the health service’s £1.5 billion underspend to NMC

Glyn Major

NMC is bound by charity law and risk avoidance to hold reserves

Jackie Smith

Reforming drug prescribing policies could save NHS millions

Wendy Keenan

Lord Warner has not found the fix for the NHS’s problems

Joyce Robins

Shame on Lord Warner for jumping on the NHS-bashing bandwagon

Anne Hardy

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

Margaret Paul

Calm apps

Nicola Evans

Anxiety – A Short History

Shelagh Daly

Motherland – Growing Up With The Holocaust

Andy Harnett

IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics

Roger Evans

Starting out - Just being there and singing Welsh hymns to a dying patient was enough

Jo Gwilym

United we stand

Zeba Arif

Readers panel - Switch off the unhealthy ads

Craig Hopkins, Linda Drake, Scott Justice, Grace Vanterpool

Fair exchange

David Newham

Ward words

Jane Bates

Dramatic effect

Victoria Harmer

Voices - Improving the health of young people is vital for society, says Viv Bennett

Viv Bennett

Laughter really can be the best medicine

Daniel Allen

A technological approach

Mary-Claire Mason

Easing ICU trauma

Mary-Claire Mason

Domestic violence

The effects of eating fried food may be greater in those with genetic risk of obesity

Use of antiseizure drug linked to significantly lower incidence of head and neck cancers

Approachability rated most desired quality in clinical leaders

The mental health benefits of moving girls from deprived areas are not replicated in boys

Deferring the prescription of antibiotics has minimal impact on severity of symptoms

Staff in state of ‘heightened anxiety’ over fitness to practise proposals

Political notebook

NMC able to ban nurses with poor English under draft legislation

World in brief

Profession pays tribute to true campaigner

Trusts to be audited on compliance with safe staffing requirements

Christian Duffin, Janet Snell

Handheld breath devices could help speed up the diagnosis of asthma

Christian Duffin

High smog levels prompted breathing problems flare-up

News in brief

NICE consults on gastric guidelines

NMC set to address nurse prescribing ‘area of concern’

Number of professors has doubled, but we still need more

Dementia care improved by using colour-coded folders

Using Facebook risks exposing patients’ lives

Nurse-led pressure ulcer project produces fast, impressive results

Bring nurses out of retirement to help ailing hospitals, says academic

Kat Keogh

Payroll system hitch leaves many healthcare staff out of pocket

RCN consultation will gauge nurses’ desire to fight Hunt on pay awards

Sally Gillen

It’s numbers, not notices, that matter in safe staffing

Graham Scott

News digest April 09 2014

News digest April 10 2014

Staff in a state of ‘heightened anxiety’ over fitness to practise proposals

Sally Gillen

Care Quality Commission begins consultation on how it inspects hospitals, care homes and mental health services

News digest April 11 2014

England’s nurse staffing levels the lowest in the UK

Highly visible ward leaders are essential to care improvements, health minister Edwin Poots tells nurses

Christian Duffin

News digest April 14 2014

General practices in England to extend opening hours

Nurses stretched to breaking point, Unison survey warns

News digest April 15 2014

Artificial limb device could offer breakthrough in treatment and prevention of pressure ulcers, say researchers

Nurses call for a one to four staffing ratio to protect the safety of patients and colleagues