Our editors
Christine Walker
Editor
Christine is the editor of Nursing Children and Young People and has also been managing editor at Nursing Standard. She originally trained as a journalist and has worked for a variety of publications. Christine is also editor of Learning Disability Practice and co-editor of Mental Health Practice, and a clinical editor specialising in nursing. Contact Christine if you would like to write an article for Nursing Children and Young People or have an idea for an article that you would like us to follow up.
Email: chris.walker@rcni.com
Call: 020 8872 3154
Twitter: @RCNi_Christine
Michael Tatterton
Consultant editor 
Michael Tatterton is the chief nursing officer at Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, and an associate professor of children’s nursing at the University of Bradford. He is a children’s nurse, health visitor, independent prescriber and advanced nurse practitioner. He has a master’s degree in public health nursing and a PhD in palliative care, gained at the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University.
Michael has more than 20 years' experience of nursing babies, children and young people, working in a variety of settings, including hospitals, community and children’s hospices. He is particularly passionate about high-quality, family centred palliative and end of life care for children.
He has published widely, with research focusing on children with life-limiting conditions, family centred care, children’s community nursing, grief, loss and bereavement, advancing nursing practice and nursing education. In addition to his consultant editor role with Nursing Children and Young People, Michael is an editor for the RCNi/BMJ journal Evidence-Based Nursing. He sits on the joint research group for Together for Short Lives and the Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine.
Michael is a fellow of the British Association of Paediatric Nurses (ABPN), a Queen’s Nurse, and a senior fellow of Advance HE.
Mark Whiting
Consultant editor
Mark Whiting is a nurse consultant in children’s specialist services for Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. He also holds the post of visiting professor of community children’s nursing at the University of Hertfordshire.
Mark has worked for 38 years in the field of community children’s nursing (CCN), as a clinical nurse, service manager, researcher and lecturer. He has a long history of publishing related to his work in the field dating back to his first publication in 1985 in sister journal Nursing Standard which was about building a nationwide community paediatric nursing service. This article, he says, was perhaps somewhat ambitious at a time when there were only 21 CCN teams in the whole of the UK employing a total of just 45 nurses. However, there are now about 3,000 CCNs working in more than 200 teams across the UK.
Mark’s most recent publication summarises the findings of a small research study focused on the experience of nurses undertaking post-registration community children’s nursing education programmes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Duncan Tyler
Technical production editor
Email: duncan.tyler@rcni.com
Michael Watson
Copy editor
Email: michael.watson@rcni.com
Helen Hyland
Administration manager
Tel: +44(0)208 872 3138
Email: helen.hyland@rcni.com
Sandra Lynch
Administration assistant