In 2009 - 2010 Salvage worked full-time in the Department of Health, England, as part of the secretariat of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery. It was launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and chaired by Ann Keen. She then worked in the secretariat of the Willis Commission on Nursing Education, chaired by Phil Willis. Its 2012 report, Quality with Compassion: the future of nursing education, underlined the importance of moving to an all-graduate nursing profession was essential.
