Opinion

Linda Nazarko is consultant nurse, physical health, West London NHS Trust. She leads a small team of nurse practitioners, educates staff, carries out audits and develops procedures. She spends most of her time in clinical practice, seeing patients and supporting nursing staff to provide physical healthcare on inpatient psychiatric wards.

Helené Donnelly is head of safety culture at Nuffield Health. Her columns focus on the importance of embedding and sustaining positive working cultures where health professionals are encouraged to speak up and voice concerns to protect staff, patients and the public.

In this series of blogs, carer Andrew Swindells invites us to follow his family’s experiences with his Mum’s vascular dementia. An Admiral Nurse then reflects on his piece, to offer brief guidance on the issues raised and how nurses can support carers and families in similar situations.

In this series of blogs, clinical nurse specialist Ingrid Fuchs wrote about her own cancer journey, sharing her experience of being diagnosed and treated for triple-negative breast cancer, a less common form of breast cancer that is harder to treat. She hoped that talking about her experience would offer new insights, both for herself as a patient and practitioner, and for other clinical nurse specialists.

Mark Radcliffe’s ever-popular and irreverent Nursing Times column has charted incidents and developments in nursing for around three decades. Always razor sharp and on target, Mark tells it like it is and takes no prisoners. He finally put down his pen in September 2022. You can find many of his previous pieces here, which are as relevant and witty as when they were first written.

Sian Rodger is patient education and health coaching lead at the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre. She works on the ward at least twice a week and then focuses on research and service improvements Her occasional column in Nursing Times focuses on her experiences overseeing patient education and the importance of listening to and learning from them.