Professor David Sines was until recently Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean and Professor of Community Health Care Nursing at the Faculty of Society and Health at Buckinghamshire New University. David obtained his PhD in social policy from the University of Southampton in 1993 and has held four Secretary of State appointments, including appointments to the UKCC and NMC. He has been a Governor of three NHS Foundation Trusts in London. He recently held an Honorary Appointment with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Associate Director of Nursing. He is a Fellow of the RCN (since 1989) and received a CBE in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for ‘Services to Health Care’. David is a Non-Executive Director with the Central London NHS Community Healthcare Trust and an Associate Non-Executive Director with Buckinghamshire NHS Hospitals Trust. David is a Trustee with The Burdett Nursing Trust and was appointed as Independent Chair and Registrar of the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners in January 2016. His work depends on the creation and maintenance of effective inter-professional and inter-agency collaboration between health and social care agencies, Royal Colleges and professional regulators.