title: Nursing in the NHS: the executive nurse director.
abstract: The advent of trusts within the NHS brought a new dimension to the role of nurses in management, in that each trust must appoint an executive nurse director to sit on the trust board. The function and potential function of this role is, I believe, pivotal to the development of clinical services within the NHS.
authors.affiliation: Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: MacPherson
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014341:Trustees