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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's director of health and social care discusses meetings, jargon and change Describe your role in one sentence: Over the years it's been one of a midwife – bringing new initiatives into the world of Nice . At the moment this includes establishing Nice's new social care programme, and supporting new work to encourage the use of Nice recommended technologies. Why did you want to work in healthcare? Quite simply, I wanted to do something useful for the world, and studying medicine seemed a good starting place. How do you want to see...

For nursing professor Kerry Reid-Searl, simulation is as good as the real thing in teaching students and improving patient care "I suit up and walk into the conference, get up on stage and start playing with the microphone. People in the audience are thinking: 'Who is this and what are we going to do with this poor old gentleman?' I start talking about my prostate problems and a recent incontinence conference I've been to – and then I peel off the mask." Kerry Reid-Searl, associate professor and assistant dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at CQ University, Australia...

Joseph Fox, who suffered a mini stroke when he was 17, took these photos to illustrate survivors' experiences.

After saying he would never do medical photography, Jason Candlin has been working in the field for 23 years Describe your role in one sentence I lead a team of medical illustrators providing clinical photography, graphics, video and design expertise to a busy acute trust. Why did you want to work in healthcare? At college I said I'd never do weddings or medical photography. But, after finishing college I needed a job, so I went to work in Sheffield Medical School's medical illustration department as an audio visual technician. After a year of that a trainee medical photographer job came...

Jackie Bailey, paralysed from the waist down after breaking her back aged 17, and her team of peer support officers work with healthcare staff to improve care for people with spinal cord injury I'm up at 6am, and the first thing I do is make a cup of tea, which I take to the bathroom. As a wheelchair user, and with my kind of spinal cord injury, it takes two hours to get washed and dressed. Breakfast is a bowl of muesli or porridge to give me energy for the day. I drive to work in a van with a lift to transfer myself and my wheelchair in and out. When I was younger I used to lift the chair...

Changes to public health will increase the professional profile of public health and bring new career paths England's directors of public health now have a new employer: responsibility for the administration of public has been transferred from the NHS to local councils. The move, which was part of the government's health reforms, has not only brought a new paymaster, it is also creating career opportunities. Responsibility for social services has already been written into the job descriptions of some local authority public health directors, and it is predicted that other services like environmental...

Our latest survey asked healthcare professionals how ready they thought organisations such as clinical commissing groups and health and wellbeing boards were to take up their new responsibilities. Here is a selection of their answers "I believe that a lot of these new structures will be in place, but whether they are ready to commission a full range of services, I doubt it." "Primary care and clinical commissioning groups are ready and have been for some time. Secondary care is not ready because for years they have refused to talk to primary care and actually work out common and...