title: The standard reply to the UKCC.
abstract: I have to take issue with a number of statements made in your column, 'UKCC: is the criticism justified' (Vol 2(16): 818). First, it is a rather extreme if not damaging view to assume that our use of the heading 'Don't say yuck, say UKCC instead' indicates a bias in thinking in the nursing press. As you have not cited any other nursing journals, readers of British Journal of Nursing, many of whom I have to assume also read Nursing Standard, are led to the obvious conclusion that you are referring specifically to Nursing Standard.
authors.affiliation: Editor Nursing Standard.
authors.forename: Norah C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Casey