The Older Person’s Nurse Fellowship Conference 2016: Bridging the gap between research and practice through nurse-led quality improvement in older person’s services

Dr Corina Naughton, is a senior lecturer in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London. Corina is joint Lead for the Older Person’s Nurse Fellowship programme. She tweets at @corina_naughton

This was the first year of the Older Person’s Nurse Fellowship (OPNF) conference, hosted by the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, in collaboration with Health Education England (HEE). The conference brought together leading older persons’ nurse research and front-line nurse-led quality improvement initiatives undertaken by senior clinical nurses from the OPNF programme. The conference was chaired By Baroness Sally Greengross and Sir Keith Person (Chair HEE).