Christine Hancock: 'The first time I played in a boy's world'

Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock became district general manager of Waltham Forest HA in 1985. She was the first woman nurse to secure the post and one of the first women to reach that level. But getting there was not plain sailing.

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