title: Face to face.
abstract: Maurice Devine qualified as a learning disability nurse in 1981 and as an RGN in 1988. In the late 1990s he moved from learning disability services to managing district nursing and treatment room services, and spent some time in in-service education. In 2003 he became the first - and only - nurse consultant in learning disability in Northern Ireland. Maurice took up his post as nursing officer for mental health, learning disability and older people at the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in December last year.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams