title: Step up to the mark, leaders.
abstract: These are challenging times for all of us. Reconfiguration, redundancy and redeployment abound and uncertainty is often the only certainty. The pressure on individuals can feel immense but this is not the era for the faint hearted. This is the time for real leaders to come to the fore, focus on the horizon and create the future.
authors.affiliation: For older people at the Department of Health, London.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sturdy