title: Let's hope roles dovetail and avoid duplication.
abstract: A year later and, after much campaigning from professional leaders, three nurses have been appointed to national leadership positions. Jane Cummings has become chief nursing offi cer (CNO) at the National Commissioning Board; Viv Bennett has taken up her post as director of nursing at the Department of Health; and Sally Brearley is chair of the prime minister's nursing and care quality forum.