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For me, the report of the UKCC Commission for Nursing and Midwifery Education, chaired by Sir Leonard Peach (UKCC, 1999) did not so much state new values for nursing as restate the importance of what have always been the traditional core principles of nursing. For many nurses, the key issues facing preregistration education relate to the link with higher education institutions (HEIs) and the clinical support and teaching that students should be receiving in clinical areas.
One of the favourite terms used in the report is `working in partnership'; indeed, the whole of the fifth chapter is dedicated to the importance of health services and HEIs working more positively and closely together. We seem to be emerging from the 'macho' era where single-minded management styles dictated the attitudes of trusts towards universities. Common complaints were that some universities had only taken over nursing education for the money and not for the benefit and support of nursing education. This inevitably led to...