title: New ways of working.
abstract: Cathie Sammon began her general nursing career in 1983 at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary and later, in Birmingham, qualified as a mental health nurse. She worked with older adults as a community psychiatric nurse and in 1996 completed a BSc (Hons) in community mental health nursing. She moved to the Foundation Mental Health Trust in Staffordshire as clinical nurse specialist and in 1998 became a nurse practitioner/lecturer in older adults' mental health. In August 2001 she was appointed consultant nurse for older adults' mental health at Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust, which merged last year and became the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust.