title: Support scheme will help nursing's leaders of the future step up.
abstract: It is hard to overstate the importance of leadership in nursing. Ward and community teams rarely thrive without a strong sister or charge nurse, while the most successful organisations in the NHS and the independent sector are invariably well led by teams that have a nurse to the fore.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom