title: Empowered by education.
abstract: Readers of Nursing Older People will need no persuasion as to the importance of fundamental and specialist training and education in care of older people. The Older Person's Nurse Fellowship, funded by Health Education England and developed at King's College London, starts in November with a small cohort of senior nurses drawn from all local education and training board areas across England ( page 6 ). It provides an opportunity for senior nurses to build on their specialist knowledge and leadership skills in nursing older people, thereby developing their role as part of a new cohort of nurse leaders.