Abstract
Well, here we are again at sunny Bournemouth for the annual fun and frolics known as Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress where I am writing this editorial at nearly 12 o’clock, Tuesday morning. And no, I am not sunbathing on the beach. I am actually looking at a more or less blank screen in front of me and wishing that it was a full screen of intelligent writing. Oh, well, can’t have it all, I suppose! But seriously, when I was asked to write this editorial a couple of weeks ago I was told that I had a blank canvas with which to work and that I could write more or less whatever I wanted, within reason. What should I write? Well, I do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about spirituality in healthcare, informal carers (of whom there are around 6million in the UK and which saves the NHS and social service budgets around £57billion a year), and the proposed demise of the learning disability branch at pre-registration nurse training.
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