Sue Lord

Welcome to the new Writers’ Special Interest Group.

The SIG has been launched to support members who are interested in writing for the Journal or IPP, but don’t know where to start. We’ve also noted that many of you feel doctors often dominate the content published in the Journal, and there’s a desire to see more papers written by nurses and ODPs. To make this happen, we need more nurses and ODPs to submit a paper to the Journal.

For those of you new to writing for a publication, we would like to encourage you to consider writing a short piece for the IPP, perhaps something which focuses on a topic related to your role in practice. For those of you who have pursued academic courses at university level, whether as an undergraduate, master’s or doctorate, we strongly encourage you to consider submitting your work/dissertation to the Journal for consideration. Guidance for authors, including word limit, categories and referencing, can be found on the Journal’s submission paper at here.

Things to consider:

• Have you participated in a service improvement project, either individually or as part of a team, that you’d like to share with the wider perioperative community?
• Have you recently written an academic piece of work which received a high score that would be suitable for publication in the Journal?

As leads of the Writers’ Special Interest Group (SIG), our primary goal is to help you get published.

Please contact us on the forum, using the questions provided as prompts to kickstart your writing journey. We look forward to collaborating with you and reading your work in print.