The 3 year plan for maternity and neonates asks us to respond to families with compassion. To do this we first need to be compassionate to ourselves and each other, and to have compassion modelled to us. In 2024 all ODNs were awarded a small amount of funding to pay attention to the wellbeing of QIS nurses. In London we decided to use this to offer two away days to senior nurses, realising that they support all the QIS nurses. We felt this was a good way to provide support and for it to be cascaded into the units. We held the first one this week and it really was a wonderful day, full of incredible matrons and senior nurses supporting each other. We will be thinking about how to follow up this work.