Putting Working Paper 10 into practice: education and training.

Education and training: working Paper 10 (WP10) (Department of Health (DoH), 1989a) may prove to be another example of policy implementation whereby the needs of nurse education will be dominated yet again by service demands for greater resources. Alternatively, there are indications that it could result in the most significant change in nurse education since the 1949 Nurse Registration Act. Over the last 7 years, there has been relatively little discussion about WP10 in the nursing press. The aim of this article, therefore, is to evaluate the impact of WP10 on nurse education, highlighting the reasons for its inception and discussing its main proposals. The author examines the issues that have arisen from its implementation so far, and those which may emerge in the future.