title: Will ministers listen to what Willis has to say?
abstract: The RCN took a risk when it asked former head teacher Lord Willis, a shadow education minister when the Liberal Democrats were in opposition, to conduct a wide-ranging review of nurse education. He could have agreed with the popular view that nursing students do not need degrees to know how to care, and gone along with the prevailing public opinion that moving nursing schools into universities 20 years ago was a mistake. As an MP from 1997 to 2010, he will have heard many complaints from constituents along these lines.