This report describes one way of helping health authority staff adjust not only to the prospect of major organisational change but also to significant changes in traditional ways of practice. It reports on a 2-day workshop held for the community nursing staff and their managers of one District Health Authority which was planning to introduce some of the sorts of changes advocated by the Cumberlege report. The workshop was generally agreed to have been successful in allaying fears and making the prospect of neighbourhood nursing more acceptable. But it was also agreed that managers would have to build on the newly established contact between themselves and field staff, and that more workshops would have to be arranged to allow more staff to participate.