SALLY GLEN is Professor of Nursing Education and Dean of St Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University London. She is also Secretary to the Council of Deans, on the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee at the Department of Health and an Institutional Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency. She has co-edited Clinical Skills in Nursing (Palgrave, 1999) and Problem Based Learning in Nursing (Palgrave, 2000). - TONY LEIBA is Principal Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health at South Bank University. He has researched and published widely in the areas of interprofessional working in health and social care, and has contributed to the development of an interprofessional practice teacher course.