We are proud to be a four-country regulator.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council held its last next meeting in Cardiff. We are proud to be a four-country regulator, and once a year we hold the meeting outside London, giving us a chance to meet with our stakeholders in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The NMC wants to communicate in a way that works for you.

Two years ago the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) made a commitment, as part of our five-year strategy, to be a leading, dynamic regulator. This means protecting the public by being forward-looking and adapting our approach to regulation to reflect the circumstances in which nurses and midwives work.

NMC is well equipped to regulate the new nursing associate role.

One of the big things on the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) 2017 agenda is nursing associates, the new role bridging the gap between healthcare assistants and nurses.

Fitness to practise will be fit for the future.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council is often in the news, and most coverage relates to outcomes of our fitness to practise (FtP) hearings.

A demonstration of mobile phone deployment to support the treatment of acutely ill children under five in Bushenyi district, Uganda.

Background: Benefits of mobile phone deployment for children <5 in low-resource settings remain unproven. The target population of the current demonstration study in Bushenyi District, Uganda, presented with acute fever, pneumonia, or diarrhoea and were treated by community health workers (CHWs) providing integrated community case management (iCCM).

Methods: An observational study was conducted in five parishes (47 villages) served by CHWs well versed in iCCM with supplemental training in mobile phone use.

Better drug therapy for the children of Africa: current impediments to success and potential strategies for improvement.

A commentary is presented on the urgent need for a comprehensive effort to improve the practice of pediatric therapeutics in Africa. A call for action is addressed to a variety of practitioners internationally, many of whom possess skills that could be fruitfully applied to the improvement of health outcomes for African children. Successful engagement with the many challenges requires the complementary effort of researchers in basic and clinical pharmacology and toxicology, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, clinical pharmacologists, clinical pharmacists, and political leaders and civil servants.