Elizabeth Gormley-Fleming is Associate Director of Academic Quality Assurance, Centre for Academic Quality Assurance, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Ian Peate, OBE, FRCN, is Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and Buckinghamshire New University, and Visiting Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nursing, and Consultant Editor of the Journal of Paramedic Practice and the International Journal for Advancing Practice.