Better health, better care, better value: National Expert Commission, part 1.

Since about the midway point of the First Ministers' 10-year plan to strengthen healthcare, its impending expiry in 2014 has prompted the leading health professions to consider "what comes next," how to influence that decision and then, how best to position their messages in the politics of whatever might emerge. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), which has a century-long history of engagement in health policy, was no exception.