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authorising the same. In this study there was an enormous level of goodwill between the actors and a strong collective commitment to deliver quality mental healthcare. Accordingly mobilisation and maintaining the other actor’s ongoing commitment, for remote nurses was not a problematic issue. 8.2.15 Obligatory passage point Obligatory passage points are a ‘single locus that can shape and mobilize the local network [and] have control over all transactions between the local and the [non-local] networks’ (Law & Callon, 1994, p. 31) or, ‘privileged location that can see and act at a distance’ (Dear & Flusty, 2002, p. 399). Remote nurses, by assuming the obligatory passage point, become the intersections of interest. The other actors in the actors’ arena, in converging on a defined mental health patient or issue, have to deal with, and through the remote nurse. Remote nurses thereby become the obligatory passage point. Consequently they mediate all interactions between actors (within the established network of delivering mental healthcare) and define the program(s) of action (Callon, 1986a; Law & Callon, 1994). The obligatory passage point is created through the moments of translation, specifically during the interessement stage, by remote nurses as the controlling actors, making themselves (mostly unknowingly) indispensable to the network (Callon, 1986a; Law & Callon, 1994).