title: The honorary officers.
abstract: Anne Footner, Chair of the RCN Society of Orthopaedic Nursing, completed 22 years in orthopaedic nursing and took up her current post as Chief Nurse at Fren- chay Hospital in September last year. She was elected Chair of the then Orthopaedic Nursing Forum in 1986 and has overseen its development into the dynamic organisation it is today.