At the forefront of policy reform.

The author talks about the changes in health care policy and the public consultations on the National Health Service's draft of the Structural Reform Plan in Great Britain. She mentions child health care-related events in September 2010 such as the release of the Kennedy Report and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) pre-registration standards and lauds the consultation process that went with it. It laments the replacement, allegedly without prior consultation, of the Department for Children, Schools and Families with the Department of Education.