Sue Beckwith is a nurse and lecturer with more than 20 years experience working in the NHS and 8 years working in Higher Education. Her areas of expertise are as a Field Chair and module leader for Nurse Prescribing. She also teaches in the fields of Community Health Care, Geratology and government health care policy. Her former post was as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Diabetes and she was a member of the Department of Health Clinical Outcomes Group for Diabetes and it is in this area that the majority of her publishing has been achieved in both peer-reviewed journals and in the medical