Supporting safe sexual and intimate expression among older people in care homes

Maggie Syme

‘My nurse helped me believe I could recover – and that I deserved to’

Reducing health inequalities

Christine Mason

Recognising and responding to care erosion: part 2

Jan Martinus Anne de Vries, Fiona Timmins

How to use a corticosteroid nasal spray

Janette Bartle

‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained’

Nursing in blood and transplant services

Lynne Pearce

How to make it go your way on the day

Mandy Day-Calder

Benefits of reminiscence therapy

Charlotte Collins

Student life - A tool for healing the planet

Alison Moore

Nurses and Nursing: The Person and the Profession

Eleanor Sherwen

The Boy from Hell: Life with a Child with ADHD

Amanda Hood

Healthcare Simulation Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice

Nikki Welyczko

Tweets of the week

Good care cannot help all

Gay Lee

Letter

Danielle Tiplady

Bribes and plasters won’t do

Michael Coram

Letter

Malvina Benitez

Hydration benefits everyone

Sarah Stevens

Please don’t make me ask ‘How did I do?’

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Would bringing back nurses’ homes improve recruitment?

Drew Payne, Beverley Ramdeen, Rachel Kent, Lauren Ferrier

Will the money tree grow another branch for us?

Ian Hulatt

We need to rethink global spending priorities

Howard Catton

Should patients complete the course?

Matt Griffiths

We must speak of hope as well as catastrophe

Anne Marie Rafferty

Don’t make an expensive mistake with tuition fees and loans

Alison Moore

The nurses who risk their safety

Erin Dean

Poor sleep patterns are detrimental to waistlines and metabolic health

Tai chi improves balance and reduces the risk of falls

Routine HIV tests at GPs shown to be cost-effective

Study challenges advice to always complete antibiotic courses

Delirium in advanced cancer may have link to lower survival rate

Female genital mutilation

Erin Dean

A scheme off to a slow start

Matthew Mckew

Around the world

Noticeboard

Sir Ian McKellen joins healthcare assistants at Wigan’s Pride parade

First Macmillan bereavement nurse starts work

nursingstandard.com

Story in numbers

Think Drink campaign gets national attention

Kat Keogh

Mental health nurses needed for Grenfell team

Chris Longhurst

News in brief

Chief nurse to lead NHS London region

Healthcare assistant fined for accessing medical records of friends and colleagues

More training places made available through clearing

Flavia Munn

‘Politics first, strategy later’ fails in workforce planning

Graham Scott