Editorial

The editorial for the last issue was written by Journal editor Maria Papadima, in which she announced that she is moving on after eight years of tireless service. Throughout this time, she has brought enormous generosity and warmth to her work, fostering lasting links with authors all around the world, many of whom paid tribute to her at a recent leaving party. All mentioned her meticulous attention to detail and the care she took over authors’ work and their relationship to their writing. Her pleasure in facilitating creativity in others, often through rigorous challenge, has been enlivening and enriching for all of us lucky enough to have her help with our writing. I also want to thank her personally for her generous support to me in my role. Fortunately, she will remain in the Journal as Commentaries Editor.

I have been with the JCP for a much shorter time, but it is also time for me to step down. We both leave in high spirits, confident that the Journal is in safe hands with the team we leave at the helm. I want to thank them, Rachel Acheson, Krisna Catsaras and Lucy Mills for bringing energy, humour, wisdom and razor-sharp thinking to our team. Also, I want to thank the wider Journal Group for their important work and encouragement and the ACP for listening and being responsive to the needs of the Journal.

I am delighted to announce that Rachel Acheson has been appointed as Editor in Chief of the JCP. Drawing on her knowledge and experience as an editor and the robust relationships she has developed, I know she will take the Journal from strength to strength.

This issue has an interesting mix of papers and a commentary. The commentary is from Gillian Sloan Donachy and continues the conversation about consent for publication of clinical material. She offers some thoughts on the contribution from Michael Garcia on this topic in issue 49.2, drawing out some of the contextual differences that might contribute to different ways of thinking about this topic. The first p