Practice Nurse’s editor-in-chief, Tina Bishop, is stepping down at the end of this year after almost 20 years as a member of the editorial board, and ten years at our helm. She will continue to serve on the board as an honorary member.
Tina, a past chair of the Royal College of Nursing Practice Nurse Association, has a hugely diverse experience of practice nursing. Having qualified in 1973, Tina became a practice nurse in 1988. Since then she has worked in a variety of roles, including education and recruitment.
Tina is currently working with the London LMCs leading a blended learning teaching package for general practice nurses and healthcare assistants, which she helped to develop. She has worked with a range of organisations and provided expert advice at national, regional and local level. Among the initiatives she has been involved in are the RCGP general practice nurse competencies framework, which has formed the basis for the Practice Nurse Curriculum.
Tina has been an active and enthusiastic editor-in-chief and has provided enormous support and encouragement to the present publishing editor, Mandy Galloway, who was appointed in 2011.
Tina will be succeeded in January by Beverley Bostock-Cox QN, a nurse practitioner in Gloucestershire, nurse committee member of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, asthma lead at the Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists, and an independent practice nurse trainer and educator.
Everyone at the Journal wishes Tina all the best for the future, as will the many readers she has encountered over the years.
