So it comes as no surprise that the Willis Commission, set up by the Royal College of Nursing to lookatnurse education, has given its whole-hearted backing to university training for nurses.
Following the Care Quality Commission's recent report on what it called "alarmingly" poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week's Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people.