title: A review of the Report on mental health nursing in England: working in partnership.
abstract: We invited Professor Smith to provide a personal perspective on the context and relevance of the first major review of psychiatric and mental health nursing in England since 1968. The British government published a report of the review in 1994 and the chairman of the steering group summarized the main issues and characterized its findings in this Journal (1, 41-44). In this paper, Professor Smith establishes the provenance of the Review of Mental Health Nursing. Consideration is given to the Report's recommendations in an effort to understand reaction to it. Finally, ideas are suggested to take forward the Report's recommendations, using the Report as a useful tool to progress psychiatric and mental health nursing. We need to be aware that without comment from the profession this Report will cease to be of interest or of relevance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*