Our cover feature is an interview with Andrea Sutcliffe, chief executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, who is stepping down due to ill health. We asked her about her key achievements and the challenges that remain for her successor at the regulator.
We also have some fantastic clinical practice content this month, including how to conduct a cardiovascular assessment, the role of magnesium in the body, a project to attract students into primary care and preventing drowning in patients with epilepsy.
As Nursing Times went to press, there were just a few days to go before the general election. Over the past eight months, we have been building a manifesto of your views to inform those vying for office about the challenges in health and social care. We have now published the complete version of A Manifesto by Nurses, which you can find at the back of this issue.
Meanwhile, the Florence Nightingale Foundation is celebrating its 90th anniversary in July. The charity, known for supporting the development of nurses through its scholarships, can trace its roots back to the founder of modern nursing.
Sticking with the historical theme, following last month’s 80th anniversary of D-Day, we have delved into the Nursing Times archive to see how we covered this seminal moment in the Second World War.
In so doing, we found out about the first 16 British nurses who arrived in France, the names of whom we have republished. There is also a picture of them in the back of a truck heading to their post.