abstract: Minor problems: the country's first walk-in centre for children with minor illnesses and injuries opened last month in Liverpool. One of three nurses working there, Karen Murch, pictured right with a young patient, predicted more choice for patients: 'Families will now have better access to paediatric expertise. It is also a chance for nurses to progress and develop fully their clinical skills.' All the nurses who run the Smithdown Children's NHS Walk-in Centre have just completed a 12-month advanced paediatric nurse practitioner programme at Liverpool John Moores University.