title: Liz Fradd gets to the heart of the pressing need for better nursing leadership at the strategic level (reflections October 14). Nurse directors need to have specific training to help them be more effective at board level.
abstract: Senior nurses should be at the board table where their clinical authority can be used to inform and influence a more holistic approach to quality monitoring across the care pathway. Meeting government time targets for seeing a GP, consultant or moving out of A&E are only small pieces of the quality jigsaw.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gleeson