Former editor and champion of older people rewarded with OBE.
Linda Thomas, editor-in-chief of RCN Publishing and a former editor of this journal, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to nursing. Ms Thomas began her nursing career at the East Roding School of Nursing in Essex, qualifying in 1973. She opted to specialise in the care of older people and worked mainly in London and the south east of England before joining the RCN in 1983 as the college's first-ever adviser in geriatric nursing, a post she held for four years. When Nursing Standard launched as a weekly journal in 1987 she joined the staff as a nurse journalist and became editor of Elderly Care, the forerunner of Nursing Older People.