"I would like to thank everybody who has kindly sent messages of congratulation and good wishes to me on my appointment as President.

May I take this opportunity to say how honoured and delighted I am to be associated with the Royal British Nurses' Association in this way. I will always be a nurse first and foremost and I therefore appreciate profoundly any opportunity to represent nursing colleagues. I particularly appreciate the honour of being President of an Association of professional colleagues who have worked in the fields in which you have served our profession. I hope to meet many of you and to learn more about the Association and individual members during the course of my Presidency.

Thank you again for the honour you have given me. I will try to be worthy of It."

Baroness Caroline Cox