Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch from iTunes and the App Store. Free. www. stopbreathethink.org The Stop, Breathe & Think app is free, thanks to underwriting from Tools for Peace, the non-profit organisation that teaches people of all ages how to develop and apply kindness and compassion in their daily lives. This app is part of that work. It supplies a personalised meditation coach and guide, teaches mindfulness and compassion-building, and helps to focus and assist with clearer, more productive decision-making. It is not necessary to sign in to get full use of the app. Lack of a connection does not affect the navigation menu or the ‘How are you?’ interactive button that matches your mental, physical and emotional state with appropriate meditations. But limited internet access does affect the ability to record progress and monitor particular targets. The app is simple, user-friendly and comes with playful illustrations. It is accessible for people new to meditation. There are, however, only 15 meditation recordings – it would be great to have more. Natalie Shaw is an art and illustration student at the University of Huddersfield, and has undertaken a work experience placement at Nursing Standard
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PICK OF THE WEEK
TONIGHT: ASSISTED DYING
Thursday July 17, ITV 1, 7.30-8pm Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying bill receives its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday July 18. Presenter Julie Etchingham (pictured) chairs a discussion with campaigners for and against the proposals. The bill applies to terminally ill, mentally competent adults. It would require the patient, after meeting strict legal safeguards, to self-administer life-ending medication. A recent YouGov poll revealed that 73 per cent of adults in England and Wales support the bill’s proposals. MONDAY JULY 14
Operation Hospital Food with James Martin
considerations standing in the way of pioneering new drugs? Journalist Jane Deith investigates.
BBC 1, 11.30am-12.15pm In the final programme of the series, celebrity chef James Martin finds out if he and his team have made a difference to hospital food. Have the patients noticed any improvement?
The Life Scientific
Long Lost Family
WEDNESDAY JULY 16
ITV 1, 9-10pm Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return for a new series of people looking for missing family members. Tonight’s programme features 28-year-old nurse Louise Kendall from Bradford. She is searching for her father, who asked her mother to terminate the pregnancy.
BBC Radio 4, 9.30-10pm Jeremy Farrar talks to presenter Jim Al-Khalili about his experiences on the front line with avian flu in Vietnam and his work as director of the Wellcome Trust.
One Born Every Minute Channel 4, 9-10pm This episode features the first home birth on the programme and the first baby to be born in the Southmead Hospital car park. Mother-to-be Kerri is determined to have a home birth for baby number three.
TUESDAY JULY 15
THURSDAY JULY 17
Nick and Margaret – Too Many Immigrants?
Tonight: Assisted Dying – For and Against
BBC 1, 9-10pm, Tues-Wed Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford explore the impact of immigration in the UK, pairing five British people opposed to immigration with five immigrants. They look at the impact of immigration on public services such as the NHS, before deciding whether immigrants are a gain or drain.
ITV 1, 7.30-8pm See Pick of the Week
Embarrassing Bodies
File on 4 – Childhood Cancer
Channel 4, 9-10pm Alan, who was left paralysed after a motorbike accident, visits Dr Pixie to find out how it would feel to stand again. In the Spanish resort of Magaluf, the doctors treat the walking wounded.
BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm Are red tape and commercial
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Read reviews online
The Nursing Standard website has an online archive of book reviews: http://rcnpublishing.com/page/ns/ resources/book-reviews
The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio REX
Stop, Breathe & Think app ★★★★★
PICK OF THE WEEK
TONIGHT: ASSISTED DYING
Thursday July 17, ITV 1, 7.30-8pm Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying bill receives its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday July 18. Presenter Julie Etchingham (pictured) chairs a discussion with campaigners for and against the proposals. The bill applies to terminally ill, mentally competent adults. It would require the patient, after meeting strict legal safeguards, to self-administer life-ending medication. A recent YouGov poll revealed that 73 per cent of adults in England and Wales support the bill’s proposals. MONDAY JULY 14
Operation Hospital Food with James Martin
considerations standing in the way of pioneering new drugs? Journalist Jane Deith investigates.
BBC 1, 11.30am-12.15pm In the final programme of the series, celebrity chef James Martin finds out if he and his team have made a difference to hospital food. Have the patients noticed any improvement?
The Life Scientific
Long Lost Family
WEDNESDAY JULY 16
ITV 1, 9-10pm Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return for a new series of people looking for missing family members. Tonight’s programme features 28-year-old nurse Louise Kendall from Bradford. She is searching for her father, who asked her mother to terminate the pregnancy.
BBC Radio 4, 9.30-10pm Jeremy Farrar talks to presenter Jim Al-Khalili about his experiences on the front line with avian flu in Vietnam and his work as director of the Wellcome Trust.
One Born Every Minute Channel 4, 9-10pm This episode features the first home birth on the programme and the first baby to be born in the Southmead Hospital car park. Mother-to-be Kerri is determined to have a home birth for baby number three.
TUESDAY JULY 15
THURSDAY JULY 17
Nick and Margaret – Too Many Immigrants?
Tonight: Assisted Dying – For and Against
BBC 1, 9-10pm, Tues-Wed Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford explore the impact of immigration in the UK, pairing five British people opposed to immigration with five immigrants. They look at the impact of immigration on public services such as the NHS, before deciding whether immigrants are a gain or drain.
ITV 1, 7.30-8pm See Pick of the Week
Embarrassing Bodies
File on 4 – Childhood Cancer
Channel 4, 9-10pm Alan, who was left paralysed after a motorbike accident, visits Dr Pixie to find out how it would feel to stand again. In the Spanish resort of Magaluf, the doctors treat the walking wounded.
BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm Are red tape and commercial
Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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