[Margaret Pilkington]

Bringing back matrons/patrons doesn't work....the structure of nursing was different in the days of the real Matron........and you can never back pedal to those days from the past......there has been far to much political meddling.

I am not against nurses getting a degree if that is what they want to do, but I am against requiring people who want to become nurses from having to have that level of education. It will exclude many candidates who would make excellent(practical) nurses because of their perceived lack of educational ability.